The Birth of a Nation
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.
Director:
D.W. Griffith
Stars:
Lillian Gish
Mae Marsh
Henry B. Walthall
Released:
March 8, 1915
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