The Birth of a Nation

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United States Of America

Drama History War

193 min

1915

Lillian Gish Fred Burns Elmo Lincoln Madame Sul-Te-Wan Raoul Walsh Robert Harron Monte Blue Bob Burns Edmund Burns Peggy Cartwright Dark Cloud John Ford Alberta Lee Eugene Pallette Alma Rubens Charles Stevens Jules White Tom Wilson Sam De Grasse Mae Marsh Henry B. Walthall Miriam Cooper Mary Alden Ralph Lewis George Siegmann Walter Long Wallace Reid Joseph Henabery Elmer Clifton Josephine Crowell Spottiswoode Aitken George Beranger Jennie Lee Donald Crisp Howard Gaye David Butler

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.