Man With A Movie List

Director: D. W. Griffith Year: 1916 Runtime: 2:47 Source: Amazon I knew of Griffith because of Birth of a Nation , the first true blockbuster film, known for both its innovative technique and explicit racism.  However, I wasn't aware that there was significant backlash at the time from the NAACP, which led to at least a few cities censoring or banning the film.  Intolerance  was intended as a response to those critics.  But despite its theme of love conquering the intolerance of others, it's certainly not an apology from the director.  The title is an outright rebuke to his liberal critics - in his eyes, they're the intolerant ones. In the case of Intolerance , though, the direct object of Griffith's scorn is not African-Americans or the NAACP, but rather the women-led Reform movement, fighting for prohibition and, implicitly, women's rights.  Intolerance  contains four concurrently-told stories from different eras, all to some extent cente...