In this cinematic milestone, director D.W. Griffith utilized enormous sets and thousands of extras in order to stage his cinematic exploration of intolerance and it's terrible effects throughout history from ancient Babylon and biblical Judea to medieval Paris and modern America.

That man from Rio: Thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris's Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Up to his ears: Unhappy billionaire Belmondo's suicide attempts keep failing. When he hires some killers to do him in, he falls in love with beautiful Andress and wants to reverse the deal.