Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - Ko Cabiria he kiriata puku puku Itari o te tau 1914, na Giovanni Pastrone i whakahaere, i koperea i Turin. Ko te kiriata e tu ana i Sicily onamata, Carthage, me Cirta i te wa o te Pakanga Tuarua o Punic (218 <unk> 202 BC). E whai ana i tētahi kaupapa nui o te waiata mō tētahi kōtiro iti, Cabiria, i tangohia, ā, e whakaatu ana i tētahi pakarutanga o Maunga Etna, i ngā tikanga karakia whakamataku i Carthage, i te haerenga maunga
o Hannibal, te hinga a Archimedes o te kaipuke Roma i te Siege o Syracuse me te mahi a Scipio i Awherika ki te Raki. I tua atu i te mea he tawhito i runga i ona ake tikanga, ko te kiriata he mea rongonui ano hoki mo te kiriata tuatahi i roto i te ahua o te kiriata roa a Maciste e whakaatu ana i tana whakaaturanga tuatahi. E ai ki a Martin Scorsese, i roto i tenei mahi i hangaia e Pastrone te kiriata epic me te utu mo te maha o nga mea hou i whakawhiwhia ki a DW Griffith me Cecil B. DeMille. I roto i aua mea ko te whakamahinga nui o te kāmera nekeneke, na reira ka tukuna te kiriata korero roa mai i te "tirohanga tuuturu".