Intolerance is the most ambitious and influential film of the 1910s. Griffith’s conceptions became grander and more utopian as the decade progressed, and he claimed at one point that cinema was a "universal language, a power that can make men brothers and end war forever.” Four different time periods (ancient Babylon, the Passion of Christ, the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, and 1910s America) are intercut as if they were like “four currents, [flowing] side by side.” Presented in a tinted and toned restoration with a full orchestral score.