Title from disc label.

This version was restored and reconstructed from fine grain archival master prints, and color tinted to the original 1916 specifications. The visual essay by Russell Merritt includes extra footage cut from the original release, copyright registration frames, background and production photographs, and publicity materials.

Originally released in the United States in 1916 by Wark Producing Corporation.

Producer, director, screenwriter, D.W. Griffith ; editors, James Smith, Rose Smith ; organ score, Gaylord Carter.

Mae Marsh, Fred Turner, Robert Harron, Sam De Grasse, Miriam Cooper, Lillian Gish, Howard Gaye, Bessie Love, George Walsh, Margery Wilson, Eugene Pallette, Spottiswoode Aitkin, Ruth Handforth, Constance Talmadge, Alfred Paget, Seena Owen.

Comprised of four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to man. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story features the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.

DVD format.

Silent with digital stereo organ score by Gaylord Carter.

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