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| Directed by | Reginald Barker Thomas H. Ince Raymond B. West |
| Screenplay by | C. Gardner Sullivan Edward Sloman |
| Story by | C. Gardner Sullivan |
| Produced by | Thomas H. Ince |
| Starring | Howard C. Hickman Enid Markey George Fisher Herschel Mayall |
| Cinematography | Joseph H. August Dal Clawson Clyde De Vinna Otis M. Gove Devereaux Jennings Charles E. Kaufman Robert Newhard Irvin Willat |
| Edited by | Thomas H. Ince Hal C. Kern LeRoy Stone Irvin Willat |
| Music by | Hugo Riesenfeld Victor Schertzinger |
| Distributed by | Triangle Film Corporation |
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Running time | 88 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
Civilization is a 1916 American pacifist drama film produced by Thomas H. Ince, written by C. Gardner Sullivan and Edward Sloman, and directed by Ince, Reginald Barker and Raymond B. West. The story involves a submarine commander who refuses to fire at a civilian ocean liner supposedly carrying ammunition for his country's enemies. The film was a big-budget spectacle that was compared to both The Birth of a Nation and the paintings of Jean-François Millet. The film was a popular success and was credited by the Democratic National Committee with helping to re-elect Woodrow Wilson as the U.S. president in 1916. The film was one of the early movies to depict Jesus Christ as a character, leading some to criticize the depiction as in "poor taste."
Civilization is sometimes viewed as one of the first anti-war films. In 1999, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[1][2]
- ^ "Preserving the Silver Screen (December 1999) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-06-01.