The Birth of a Nation
Release Date: 1915-03-08
Rating : 5.981/10
Duration : 195 minutes
Genres : Drama, History, War
Director : D.W. Griffith
Writer : Frank E. Woods, D.W. Griffith
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
Lillian Gish
Mae Marsh
Henry B. Walthall
Miriam Cooper
Mary Alden
Ralph Lewis