Intolerance is a movie partially made in response to critics who considered Birth Of A Nation racist. It traces the history of human intolerance through four distinct historical eras, interweaving so many different stories and tales that three thousand extras were needed for the movie. It depicts the fall of Babylon, blaming the conflict which led to it on religious differences among Babylonians. The film demonstrates the role that intolerance and misunderstanding played in the persecution and crucifixation of Jesus and describes the failure of the Edict of Toleration which resulted in the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France. The last era Intolerance covers was then-modern America, going into detail about how corporations and religious beliefs had and were shattering the "American Dream."