After The Birth of a Nation, DW Griffith filmed the feature film Mother and the Law, a minor film compared to the previous blockbuster. Griffith decided to expand the story with three others and that the whole would serve to offer a vision of the intolerant behavior of humanity and the serious consequences of betrayal throughout history. Taking the technique of parallel montage to its ultimate consequences, the four stories could be followed simultaneously linked by the figure of a mother rocking her child's cradle: the fall of Babylon, set in the year 539 BC. from JC; the martyrdom and death of Jesus Christ in Judea; the St. Bartholomew's Night Massacre in France in 1572, and the modern-day massacre set in 1914. This great blockbuster, whose first unreleased production lasted 8 hours!, di