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Dans un quartier pauvre de Londres, une jeune fille, Lucy, est battue par son père, champion de boxe ivrogne et raciste. Un soir, alors qu'elle erre dans la rue déboussolée et blessée, Cheng Huan, jeune immigré chinois timide et idéaliste, la recueille chez lui. Il prend alors soin d'elle et en tombe amoureux. Mais le père ne tarde pas à les retrouver…

Lennox un homme très riche et fort d'un succès certain chez les jeunes filles de la bonne société, séduit Anna d'extraction plus modeste. Cette dernière, envoyée par sa mère demander une aide financière auprès de parents éloignés se laisse convaincre par les assauts répétés de Lennox et une demande en mariage de celui-ci. Une cérémonie fantoche orchestrée par Lennox est célébrée, et le mariage consommé. Mais, Anna tombant rapidement enceinte, Lennox la laisse tomber. Seule, elle accouche de son enfant, Trust Lennox, qui disparaît rapidement d'une maladie. À la mort de l'enfant, Anna erre et trouve finalement un travail comme femme à tout faire chez Squire Bartlett, un propriétaire terrien. David, le fils de Squire Bartlett, s'éprend d'elle. Mais, bien que personne n'en ait alors eu vent, elle ne peut souscrire à ses avances, à cause de son passé.

La vie d'Abraham Lincoln retracée à travers ses événements majeurs, de sa naissance à son assassinat en passant par ses petits boulots, sa relation supposée avec Ann Rutledge, son débat avec Douglas, sa présidence et sa réaction face à la Guerre Civile.

À Paris, peu avant la Révolution française. Deux orphelines sont séparées par le destin. L'une, aveugle, est exploitée par une horrible mégère qui la fait mendier dans les rues. L'autre devient la proie d'un marquis débauché, qui veut la séduire de force.

Susie et William, deux jeunes campagnards, tombent amoureux l'un de l'autre mais n'osent pas s'avouer leurs sentiments. Susie se sacrifie en secret pour permettre au jeune homme de partir étudier à la ville, où il réussit. Quand elle comprend que cette ascension sociale l'a placé hors de sa portée, elle accepte son sort en silence...

December 5, 1924

A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to marry Paul. Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga's future and he serves as their symbol of optimism.

April 12, 1921

Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.

May 21, 1923

A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.

August 21, 1920

A man murders his wife's lover and escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective pursues him, joined by a young man who eventually falls in love with the daughter.

October 12, 1926

Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.

December 10, 1931

A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.

Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman. When the war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbreaker, is drafted.

August 18, 1919

After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The second of these was 'The Mother and the Law', which demonstrates how crime, moral puritanism, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers help ruin the lives of marginal Americans.

November 18, 1919

Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers. Because her daughter, who knows nothing of her mother's station in life, is to return the next day from her school in the east, Rosie is granted three days of grace to be spent in company with her daughter at a nearby cabin. The three days begin happily enough, thanks to the serenades of heroic bandit Alvarez and the poetry of romantic Randolph. But Bagley, the dance hall manager, has seen the daughter and has determined to make her his own.

John Logan laisse ses parents et son amour dans leur heureuse vallée bucolique pour aller faire fortune en ville. Ceux qu'il a laissés derrière lui deviennent misérables et assiégés en son absence, mais après plusieurs années il revient, en homme riche. Son père aigri et ne le reconnaissant pas pour ce qu'il est, prévoit d'assassiner l'étranger nouvellement arrivé pour lui prendre son argent.

October 2, 1922

A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older suitor who has a hold over her adoptive mother, falls in love with Fairfax, a young stranger at a party. A group of bootleggers try to get away with the loot stashed previously within Fairfax's mansion; Mysterious faces peer into the windows and shadowy figures stalk the hall. One of the bootleggers is killed and the young stranger becomes the prime suspect.

Un groupe de jeunes grandit et s'aime dans un paisible village français. Mais la guerre fait irruption et la paix est brisée. L'armée allemande envahit et occupe le village, apportant destruction et torture. Les jeunes du village résistent, certains avec succès, d'autres tragiquement, jusqu'à ce que les troupes françaises reprennent le village.

July 21, 1919

After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.

February 21, 1924

Pendant la guerre d'indépendance, on suit le quotidien entre l'armée régulière britannique au nord de l'État de New York et les miliciens patriotes dans le Massachusetts et en Virginie.

January 24, 1928

A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.

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