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- Adult (5)
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Schindler's List
1993, USA
- Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz, Malgoscha Gebel, Shmuel Levy, Mark Ivanir, Béatrice Macola, Andrzej Seweryn, Friedrich von Thun, Krzysztof Luft, Harry Nehring, Norbert Weisser, Adi Nitzan, Michael Schneider, Miri Fabian, Anna Mucha, Albert Misak, Michael Gordon, Aldona Grochal, Jacek Wójcicki, Beata Paluch, Piotr Polk, Ezra Dagan, Beata Nowak, Rami Heuberger, Leopold Kozlowski, Jerzy Nowak
- Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
- Director(s): Steven Spielberg
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Available languages:
- English English.
Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.
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"Frontline" From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians - Part 1
1998, USA
- Actors: William Cran, Paula Fredriksen, Holland Lee Hendrix, Jeremiah Kissel, Will Le Bow, Will Lyman, Marilyn Mellowes, Robin Parmelee, Dossy Peabody, Timothy Sawyer, James Spruill
- Genre: Documentary, Crime, History, Music, News, Sport
- Director(s): William Cran
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Available languages:
- English English.
The story of the rise of Christianity.
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Zeitgeist
2007, USA
- Actors: Osama Bin Laden, George W. Bush, George Carlin, Tim Galloway, Bill Hicks, Adolf Hitler, David Icke, Lyndon Larouche, Jordan Maxwell, Chogyam Trungpa
- Genre: Documentary, History, War
- Director(s): Peter Joseph
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Available languages:
- English English.
Documentary about a) the origin of christian faith b) how american banks have seized worldpower at the beginning of the 20th century c) how these 2 items are related to the wars fought in the 20th and 21st century.
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Das Boot
1981, West Germany
- Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge, Bernd Tauber, Erwin Leder, Martin May, Heinz Hoenig, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Jan Fedder, Ralf Richter, Joachim Bernhard, Oliver Stritzel, Konrad Becker, Lutz Schnell, Martin Hemme, Rita Cadillac, Otto Sander, Günter Lamprecht, Thomas Boxhammer, Roger Barth, Günther Franke, Christian Bendomir, Norbert Gronwald, Albert Kraml, Jean-Claude Hoffmann, Peter Pathenis, Arno Kral
- Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
- Director(s): Wolfgang Petersen
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Available languages:
- French French.
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.
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Mihai Viteazul
1971, Romania, France, Italy
- Actors: Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu, Olga Tudorache, Irina Gardescu, György Kovács, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Nicolae Secareanu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Aurel Rogalschi, Ioana Bulca, Septimiu Sever, Florin Piersic, Klára Sebök, Mircea Albulescu, Emmerich Schäffer, Alexandru Herescu, Fory Etterle, Colea Rautu, Constantin Codrescu, Jean Lorin Florescu, Emil Liptac, Radu Nicolae, Florin Scarlatescu, Mihai Mereuta, Valentino Dain, Corneliu Gîrbea, Papil Panduru, Dinu Gherasim, Florin Blanarescu, Dan Dobre
- Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
- Director(s): Sergiu Nicolaescu
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Available languages:
- Romanian Romanian.
An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai P
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Braveheart
1995, USA
- Actors: Mel Gibson, James Robinson, Sean Lawlor, Sandy Nelson, James Cosmo, Sean McGinley, Alan Tall, Andrew Weir, Gerda Stevenson, Ralph Riach, Mhairi Calvey, Brian Cox, Patrick McGoohan, Peter Hanly, Sophie Marceau, Stephen Billington, Barry McGovern, Angus Macfadyen, John Kavanagh, Alun Armstrong, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson, Tommy Flanagan, Julie Austin, Alex Norton, Joanne Bett, Rupert Vansittart, Michael Byrne, Robert Paterson, Malcolm Tierney
- Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
- Director(s): Mel Gibson
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Available languages:
- English English.
William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule.
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The Elephant Man
1980, USA
- Actors: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, Helen Ryan, John Standing, Dexter Fletcher, Lesley Dunlop, Phoebe Nicholls, Pat Gorman, Claire Davenport, Orla Pederson, Patsy Smart, Frederick Treves, Stromboli, Richard Hunter, James Cormack, Robert Lewis Bush, Roy Evans, Joan Rhodes, Nula Conwell, Tony London, Alfie Curtis, Bernadette Milnes, Brenda Kempner, Carol Harrison
- Genre: Biography, Drama, History
- Director(s): David Lynch
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Available languages:
- English English.
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.
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Gladiator
2000, UK, USA
- Actors: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, David Schofield, John Shrapnel, Tomas Arana, Ralf Moeller, Spencer Treat Clark, David Hemmings, Tommy Flanagan, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Omid Djalili, Nicholas McGaughey, Chris Kell, Tony Curran, Mark Lewis, John Quinn, Alun Raglan, David Bailie, Chick Allan, David Nicholls, Al Ashton, Billy Dowd, Ray Calleja, Giannina Facio, Giorgio Cantarini
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
- Director(s): Ridley Scott
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Available languages:
- English English.
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.
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Hotel Rwanda
2004, UK, USA, Italy, South Africa
- Actors: Xolani Mali, Don Cheadle, Desmond Dube, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tony Kgoroge, Rosie Motene, Neil McCarthy, Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole, Nick Nolte, Fana Mokoena, Jeremiah Ndlovu, Sophie Okonedo, Lebo Mashile, Antonio David Lyons, Leleti Khumalo, Kgomotso Seitshohlo, Lerato Mokgotho, Mosa Kaiser, Mathabo Pieterson, Ofentse Modiselle, David O'Hara, Joaquin Phoenix, Lennox Mathabathe, Mothusi Magano, Noxolo Maqashalala, Thulani Nyembe, Simo Mogwaza, Mirriam Ngomani, Cara Seymour, Harriet Lenabe
- Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
- Director(s): Terry George
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Available languages:
- English English.
The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
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Judgment at Nuremberg
1960, USA
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Edward Binns, Werner Klemperer, Torben Meyer, Martin Brandt, William Shatner, Kenneth MacKenna, Alan Baxter, Ray Teal, Virginia Christine, Ben Wright, Joseph Bernard, John Wengraf, Karl Swenson, Howard Caine, Otto Waldis, Olga Fabian, Paul Busch, Bernard Kates, Oscar Beregi Jr., Asher Brauner, Sheila Bromley, John Clarke, Joseph Crehan
- Genre: Drama, History
- Director(s): Stanley Kramer
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Available languages:
- English English.
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.
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Bowling for Columbine
2002, Canada, USA, Germany
- Actors: Jacobo Arbenz, Mike Bradley, Arthur A. Busch, George Bush, George W. Bush, Michael Caldwell, Richard Castaldo, Dick Clark, Steve Davis, Ngo Dinh Diem, Byron Dorgan, Mike Epstein, Joe Farmer, Mike Fasolo, Denny Fennell, Barry Glassner, John Harris, Dick Herlan, Charlton Heston, Jeremy Hicks, Ernest F. Hollings, Jimmie Hughes, Dick Hurlin, Amanda Lamante, Mary Lorenz, Marilyn Manson, Daniel Mauser, Tom Mauser, Evan McCollum, Timothy McVeigh
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Director(s): Michael Moore
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Available languages:
- English English.
Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.
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Ben-Hur
1958, USA
- Actors: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Sam Jaffe, Finlay Currie, Frank Thring, Terence Longdon, George Relph, André Morell, Les Ballets Africains, Ady Berber, Marina Berti, Hugh Billingsley, Jerry Brown, Robert Brown, Lando Buzzanca, Joe Canutt, Otello Capanna, Emile Carrer, Richard Coleman, Michael Cosmo, Alfredo Danesi, David Davies, Princess Carmen de Hohenlohe, Victor De La Fosse, Liana Del Balzo
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
- Director(s): William Wyler
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Available languages:
- English English.
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
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Sicko
2007, USA
- Actors: Michael Moore, Tucker Albrizzi, Tony Benn, George W. Bush, Reggie Cervantes, Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Billy Crystal, John Graham, Aleida Guevara, William Maher, Richard Nixon, Patrick Pedraja, Linda Peeno
- Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
- Director(s): Michael Moore
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Available languages:
- English English.
A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories.
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The Corporation
2003, Canada
- Actors: Jane Akre, Ray Anderson, Maude Barlow, Chris Barrett, Carlton Brown, Smedley Darlington Butler, Noam Chomsky, Víctor Hugo Daza, Peter Drucker, Samuel Epstein, Milton Friedman, Kathie Lee Gifford, Naomi Klein, Susan E. Linn, Luke McCabe, Mikela J. Mikael, Robert Monks, Michael Moore, Jonathan Ressler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Vandana Shiva, Steve Wilson, Howard Zinn, Kofi Annan, George W. Bush, Jean Chrétien, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Frank Gifford, Adolf Hitler
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Director(s): Mark Achbar
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Available languages:
- English English.
Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
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For All Mankind
1989, USA
- Actors: Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean, Jack Swigert, Stuart Roosa, James Irwin, Kenneth Mattingly, Charles Duke, Harrison Schmitt, Buzz Aldrin, Bill Anders, Neil Armstrong, Stephen Bales, Frank Borman, Walter Cunningham, Ron Evans, Fred Haise, Christopher Kraft, Gene Kranz, Jim McDivitt, Edgar D. Mitchell, Bob Overmyer, Buck Owens, Wally Schirra, Dave Scott, Alan Shepard
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Director(s): Al Reinert
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Available languages:
- English English.
This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours...
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Letters from Iwo Jima
2006, USA
- Actors: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando, Yuki Matsuzaki, Takashi Yamaguchi, Eijiro Ozaki, Nae, Nobumasa Sakagami, Yoshi Ando, Luke Eberl, Sonny Saito, Steve Santa Sekiyoshi, Hiro Abe, Toshiya Agata, Yoshi Ishii, Toshi Toda, Ken Kensei, Ikuma Ando, Akiko Shima, Masashi Nagadoi, Mark Moses, Roxanne Hart, Yoshio Iizuka, Mitsu, Takuji Kuramoto, Koji Wada
- Genre: Drama, History, War
- Director(s): Clint Eastwood
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Available languages:
- Japanese Japanese.
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
1972, West Germany
- Actors: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling, Cecilia Rivera, Daniel Ades, Edward Roland, Alejandro Chavez, Armando Polanah, Daniel Farfán, Julio E. Martínez, Alejandro Repulles, Indianern der Kooperative Lauramarca, Justo González, Antonio Marquez
- Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
- Director(s): Werner Herzog
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Available languages:
- German German.
In in 16th century, the ruthless and insane Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
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The Lion in Winter
1967, UK
- Actors: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton, Jane Merrow, Nigel Stock, Kenneth Ives, O.Z. Whitehead, Fran Stafford, Ella More, Kenneth Griffith, Henry Woolf, Karol Hagar, David Griffith
- Genre: Drama, History
- Director(s): Anthony Harvey
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Available languages:
- English English.
1183 AD: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.
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Inherit the Wind
1960, USA
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Claude Akins, Elliott Reid, Paul Hartman, Philip Coolidge, Jimmy Boyd, Noah Beery Jr., Norman Fell, Gordon Polk, Hope Summers, Ray Teal, Renee Godfrey, Florence Eldridge, Gail Bonney, Jack Daly, Richard Deacon, Lester Dorr, Donald Elson, David Fresco, Sam Harris, Earle Hodgins, Wendell Holmes, Frank Mills, Robert Osterloh, Bob Perry
- Genre: Drama, History, Romance
- Director(s): Stanley Kramer
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Available languages:
- English English.
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
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In Cold Blood
1966, USA
- Actors: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey, John Gallaudet, James Flavin, Charles McGraw, Will Geer, John McLiam, Ruth Storey, Brenda Currin, Paul Hough, Vaughn Taylor, Duke Hobbie, Sheldon Allman, Sammy Thurman, Raymond Hatton, Sadie Truitt, Myrtle Clare, Ted Eccles, Al Christy, Don Sollars, Harriet Levitt, Rhonda Fultz, Mary Linda Rapelye, John Collins, Pamela Crosley, Nick Dimitri
- Genre: Crime, Drama, History
- Director(s): Richard Brooks
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Available languages:
- English English.
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
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Z
1969, France, Algeria
- Actors: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner, François Périer, Pierre Dux, Georges Géret, Bernard Fresson, Marcel Bozzuffi, Julien Guiomar, Magali Noël, Renato Salvatori, Habib Reda, Clotilde Joano, Maurice Baquet, Sid Ahmed Agoumi, Allel El Mouhib, Hassan Hassani, Gérard Darrieu, Jean Bouise, Jean-Pierre Miquel, Van Doude, Jean Dasté, Jean-François Gobbi, Guy Mairesse, Andrée Tainsy, Eva Simonet, François Chaumette, José Artur
- Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
- Director(s): Costa-Gavras
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Available languages:
- English English.
Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles.
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The Message
1977, Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait, Morocco, UK
- Actors: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara, Johnny Sekka, Michael Forest, Damien Thomas, Ahmed Abdelhalim, Habib Ageli, Mohammad Al-Gaddary, Nicolas Amer, Bruno Barnabe, Mohamed Basri, John Bennett, Martin Benson, Robert Brown, Donald Burton, Earl Cameron, George Camiller, Ronald Chenery, Rosalie Crutchley, Hassan Essakali, Salem Gedara, Michael Godfrey, Garrick Hagon, Gerard Hely, John Humphry, Elaine Ives-Cameron, Neville Jason, Richard Johnson, Hassan Joundi
- Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
- Director(s): Moustapha Akkad
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Available languages:
- English English.
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Why We Fight
2005, USA, France, UK, Canada, Denmark
- Actors: Ken Adelman, John Ashcroft, Osama Bin Laden, George Bush, George W. Bush, Robert Byrd, Frank Capra, Dick Cheney, Joseph Cirincione, Bill Clinton, Anh Duong, Gwynne Dyer, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John S.D. Eisenhower, Susan Eisenhower, Donna Ellington, Dennis Hastert, Saddam Hussein, Chalmers Johnson, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Ayatollah Khomeini, William Kristol, Karen Kwiatkowski, Charles Lewis, John McCain, Richard Nixon, Bill O'Reilly, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Richard Perle
- Genre: Documentary, History, War
- Director(s): Eugene Jarecki
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Available languages:
- English English.
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
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'Breaker' Morant
1980, Australia
- Actors: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Terence Donovan, Vincent Ball, Ray Meagher, Chris Haywood, Russell Kiefel, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Rod Mullinar, Alan Cassell, Rob Steele, Chris Smith, Bruno Knez, John Pfitzner, Frank Wilson, Michael Procanin, Ray Ball, Wayne Bell, Halifa Cisse, Norman Currer, Bridget Cornish, Judy Dick, Barbara West, Ria Erskine, Ian Gray, Sylvia Horseman, Dick Henderson
- Genre: Drama, History, War
- Director(s): Bruce Beresford
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Available languages:
- English English.
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1915, USA
- Actors: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner, Sam De Grasse, Vera Lewis, Mary Alden, Eleanor Washington, Pearl Elmore, Lucille Browne, Julia Mackley, Miriam Cooper, Walter Long, Tom Wilson, Ralph Lewis, Lloyd Ingraham, A.W. McClure, John P. McCarthy, Dore Davidson, Monte Blue, Marguerite Marsh, Edward Dillon, Billy Quirk, Howard Gaye, Lillian Langdon, Olga Grey, Erich von Ritzau, Bessie Love, William H. Brown, George Walsh, W.S. Van Dyke
- Genre: Drama, History, Romance
- Director(s): D.W. Griffith
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Available languages:
- English English.
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
























