Director D.W.

Griffith's expensive, most ambitious silent film masterpiece Intolerance (1916) is one of the milestones and landmarks in cinematic history.

Many reviewers and film historians consider it the greatest film of the silent era.

The mammoth film was also subtitled: "A Sun-Play of the Ages" and "Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages." Griffith was inspired to make this film after watching the revolutionary Italian silent film epic Cabiria (1914) by director Giovanni Pastrone.

Date : 1916
Cast : Lillian Gish as Eternal Motherhood
Vera Lewis as Mary T.

Jenkins
Mae Marsh as The Dear One
F.

A.

Turner as The Dear One's father, a worker at the Jenkins Mill
Robert Harron as The Boy
Josephine Crowell as Catherine de Medici, the Queen-mother
Joseph Henabery as Admiral Coligny
Constance Talmadge as Marguerite of Valois
W.

E.

Lawrence as Henry of Navarre
Margery Wilson as Brown Eyes
Eugene Pallette as Prosper Latour
Sam de Grasse as Mr.

Jenkins, mill boss
Constance Talmadge as The Mountain Girl (second role in film)
Elmer Clifton as The Rhapsode, a warrior-singer
Tully Marshall as High Priest of Bel (mythology)
Ruth St.

Denis as Dancing girls
Alfred Paget as Prince Belshazzar
Carl Stockdale as King Nabonidus, father of Belshazzar
Elmo Lincoln as The Mighty Man of Valor, guard to Belshazzar
Seena Owen as The Princess Beloved, favorite of Belshazzar
Miriam Cooper as The Friendless One, former neighbor of the Boy and Dear One
Walter Long (actor) as Musketeer of the Slums
Bessie Love as The Bride
George Walsh as The Bridegroom
Howard Gaye as Jesus Christ
Lillian Langdon as Mary, the Mother
Spottiswoode Aitken as Brown Eyes' father
George Siegmann as Cyrus the Great
Max Davidson as tenement neighbor of Dear One
Douglas Fairbanks as Drunken Soldier with monkey (uncredited Extra (actor))
Lloyd Ingraham as Judge (Modern Story)
Tom Wilson (actor) as The Kindly Officer (Kindly Heart)
Ralph Lewis (actor) as The Governor