Must-Watch List Comparable to the Style of Intolerance: Cult Guide

Dir: D.W. Griffith

John Howard Payne at his most miserable point in life, writes a song which becomes popular and inspires other people at some point in their lives.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Greatest Question perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

An orphan girl is given shelter by a farm family, but soon finds herself in the clutches of a murderous farmer and his wife.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A re-edited version of the 'modern' story from Intolerance (1916).

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Mother and the Law perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A romantic bandit named Alvarez, wanted for raids on the mining camps of the California gold rush in 1849, is reformed by the love of a good woman.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

An idealistic young American during World War I, itching to fight the Germans and not wanting to wait until the U. S. joined the war, journeys to Canada and enlists in the British army. He is sent for training to England, and then to the front in France, where he is wounded. Returned back to England to recuperate from his wounds, he falls in love with the daughter of an Australian minister.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Scarlet Days perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

In the last days of ancient Babylon, a tomboyish mountain girl fights for her king when the city is attacked.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Great Love perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Story of two brothers who go off to France to fight in World War I, the women who love them and an American expatriate living in France who rallies behind his former country.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

Jeannette Peret, daughter of a cigar-store owner, leaves her Greenwich Village home for France in hopes of finding there the love which eludes her at home. She becomes enamored of le Bebe, a giant of a vegetable peddler, but his unsophisticated ways disillusion her. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young man from home who had spurned Jeannette, now turns up and realizes the error of his ways. But he, too, has a great flaw, and only the outbreak of war , ironically, is able to lead Jeannette to a peaceful conclusion to her quest.

Dir: D.W. Griffith

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.