The Birth of a Nation

03/08/1915

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3hrs 15min

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Drama

,History

,War

The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

STORY

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Lillian Gish
  • Mae Marsh
  • Henry B. Walthall
  • Miriam Cooper
  • Mary Alden

    Directors

  • Joseph Henabery
  • Raoul Walsh
  • D.W. Griffith

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Epoch Film Co.

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • No Language

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