In 1989, it was one of the first films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. In the years following its release, Intolerance would strongly influence European film movements. Intolerance was not, however, an apology, as Griffith felt he had nothing to apologize for in numerous interviews, Griffith made clear that the film was a rebuttal to his critics and he felt that they were, in fact, the intolerant ones.
Griffith chose to explore the theme of intolerance partly in response to his previous film The Birth of a Nation (1915) being criticized by the NAACP and other groups for perpetuating racial stereotypes and glorifying the Ku Klux Klan. The scenes are linked by shots of a figure representing Eternal Motherhood, rocking a cradle. Each story had its own distinctive color tint in the original print, but not in the currently available versions. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572 and fourth, a Babylonian story: the fall of the Babylonian Empire to Persia in 539 BC.
Regarded as one of the most influential films of the silent era (though it received mixed reviews at the time), the three-and-a-half-hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines, each separated by several centuries: first, a contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption second, a Judean story: Christ's mission and death third, a French story: the events surrounding the St. Subtitles include Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages and A Sun-Play of the Ages. Intolerance is a 1916 epic silent film directed by D.
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