该电影由D.W. Griffith执导，内详等主演，于1919年上映。在63分钟的叙事中，《巴比伦亡国记》（又名：内详）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.