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The movie director D.W. Griffith's strange and highly expensive film Intolerance from 1916 is to date the only movie featuring independent Babylon that I know of. Fantastical sets. There are elephant sculptures in there for some reason, but overall it looks rather brilliant in black-and-white, or perhaps aged sepia.

Check out its Babylon scenes sometime for the visuals! (The only Youtube videos with only-Babylon-scenes have atrocious video quality.)

Love this movie as well as many others from the silent era.
The thing that always amazes me is the sheer scope of many of the sets from that time.

Yeah, this is pretty incredible and a classic "they don't make them like they used to" moment.

I visited the Pergamon Museum in Berlin a few years back annd as well as the Pergamon Altar they also have intact sections of the walls of Babylon and I was blown away at how massive they seemed.

It looks like the ones in Intolerance are actually to scale.