Name: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Released: 1916

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916): trivia & fun facts

Even though up to that time it was the most expensive American film made and grossed far less than The Birth of a Nation, it earned approximately $1.75 million for its backers, a respectable performance and enough to recoup its budget.
Griffith began shooting the film with the Modern Story (originally titled "The Mother and the Law"), whose planning predated the great commercial success of The Birth of a Nation.
The total cost of producing Intolerance was reported to be close to $2 million including $250,000 for the Belshazzar feast scene alone, an astronomical sum in 1916, but accounts for the film show the exact cost to be $385,906.77.
The website's consensus reads: "A pioneering classic and one of the most influential films ever made, D.W. Griffith's Intolerance stands as the crowning jewel in an incredible filmography."
A third of the budget went into making the Babylonian segments of the film.
Intolerance was shown out of competition at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1989, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", the first year of voting.
In 1958, the film was voted number seven in the World Expo film poll.

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