Intolerance, 1916 by D. W. Griffith

Intolerance is a 1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Subtitles include Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages and A Sun-Play of the Ages.

Widely regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the silent era, the three-and-a-half-hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines, each separated by several centuries:
(1) a contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption,
(2) a Judean story: Christ’s mission and death,
(3) a French story: the events surrounding the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre of 1572, and
(4) a Babylonian story: the fall of the Babylonian Empire to Persia in 539 BC.