The Birth of a Nation

Mar 8, 1915

3h 15m

★ 6.0

The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

History

War

Production Companies

Epoch Film Co.

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Cast

Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

Lillian Gish

Flora Cameron

Mae Marsh

Col. Ben Cameron

Henry B. Walthall

Margaret Cameron

Miriam Cooper

Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia

Mary Alden

Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman

Ralph Lewis

Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch

George Siegmann

Gus

Walter Long

Tod

Robert Harron

Jeff, the Blacksmith

Wallace Reid

Abraham Lincoln

Joseph Henabery

Stoneman's Elder Son Phil

Elmer Clifton

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