The Birth of a Nation

The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

★ 5.91915

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.

Type: Movie

Country: United States of America

Released: 1915-03-08

Duration: 195 min

Genres: Drama, History, War

Rating: 5.9/10

Production: Epoch Film Co., D.W. Griffith Productions, Epoch Productions

Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden

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