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  • This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1994.

  • One of the first films that Griffith used the technique of parallel editing on (a technique he pioneered). It was used to create the effects in the wheat suffocating scene.

  • The scene in which the farmer sows his seeds is an animated reproduction of Millet's famous painting 'The Sower'.

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