The Birth of a Nation 1915
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.
- Released: 1915-02-08
- Runtime: 193 minutes
- Genre: Drama, History, War
- Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, George Siegmann, Walter Long, Wallace Reid, Joseph Henabery, Elmer Clifton, Josephine Crowell, Spottiswoode Aitken, George Beranger, Maxfield Stanley, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse, William De Vaull, Willam Freeman, Fred Burns, Allan Sears Show all >
- Director: D.W. Griffith