7.4
The Birth of a Nation
The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
5.9604 votes19153h 13mReleased
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.
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
- Released
- 8 March 1915
- Studio
- Epoch Film Co., D.W. Griffith Productions, Epoch Productions
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Top Cast
Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
