The Birth of a Nation
The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
19153h 15m
- Drama
- History
- War
TMDB rating 5.9TMDB619 votes
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.
- Directed by
- D.W. Griffith
- Written by
- Frank E. Woods, D.W. Griffith
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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
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Facts
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $100K
- Revenue
- $100M
- Production companies
- Epoch Film Co., D.W. Griffith Productions, Epoch Productions
