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The Birth of a Nation
1915, Mar 08
3h 15m
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
D.W. Griffith
Carli Elinor
Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Erich von Stroheim
Dark Cloud
General (uncredited)
Donald Crisp
Gen. U.S. Grant
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Monte Blue
(uncredited)
Alma Rubens
Belle of 1861 (uncredited)
Elmo Lincoln
Blacksmith (uncredited)
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Tom Wilson
Stoneman's Servant (uncredited)
Spottiswoode Aitken
Dr. Cameron
Jennie Lee
Mammy
Eugene Pallette
Union Soldier (uncredited)
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
George Beranger
Wade Cameron
Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith
Howard Gaye
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Walter Long
Gus
Peggy Cartwright
Young Girl in Cabin (uncredited)
Robert Harron
Tod
Edmund Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Charles Stevens
Volunteer (uncredited)
Fred Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Josephine Crowell
Mrs. Cameron
Sam De Grasse
Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)
Maxfield Stanley
Duke Cameron
Alberta Lee
Mrs. Lincoln (uncredited)
Olga Grey
Laura Keene (uncredited)
Allan Sears
Klansman (uncredited)
Bob Burns
Klan Leader (uncredited)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Black Woman (uncredited)
Mary Wynn
William De Vaull
Nelse (uncredited)
Willam Freeman
Jake / Sentry at Hospital (uncredited)
Harry Braham
Cameron's Male Servant (uncredited)
Edward Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
Leonore Cooper
Elsie's Maid (uncredited)
Betty Marsh
Child with Dr. Cameron (uncredited)
Donna Montran
Belle of 1861 (uncredited)
Violet Wilkey
Young Flora Cameron (uncredited)
Herbert Sutch
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