The Birth of a Nation
1915 / PG / 3 hr 13 minTwo 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.
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Director
D.W. Griffith
Cast
Henry B. Walthall, Lillian Gish
Producted By
Epoch Film Co.
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