The Birth of a Nation
The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden
Writer: Frank E. Woods, D.W. Griffith, Thomas F. Dixon Jr., Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
Release Date:
March 8, 1915
March 8, 1915
Ratings:
5.9 / 10
5.9 / 10
Director:
D.W. Griffith
D.W. Griffith
Companies:
Epoch Film Co.
Epoch Film Co.
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.
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