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The Birth of a Nation
1915, Feb 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
Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Monte Blue
(uncredited)
Eugene Pallette
Union Soldier (uncredited)
Erich von Stroheim
Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith
Donald Crisp
Gen. U.S. Grant
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Sam De Grasse
Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)
Tom Wilson
Stoneman's Servant (uncredited)
George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Edmund Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Spottiswoode Aitken
Dr. Cameron
Josephine Crowell
Mrs. Cameron
Walter Long
Gus
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
Elmo Lincoln
Blacksmith (uncredited)
Robert Harron
Tod
Charles Stevens
Volunteer (uncredited)
Alberta Lee
Mrs. Lincoln (uncredited)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Black Woman (uncredited)
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Bob Burns
Klan Leader (uncredited)
George Beranger
Wade Cameron
Olga Grey
Laura Keene (uncredited)
Allan Sears
Klansman (uncredited)
Howard Gaye
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Peggy Cartwright
Young Girl in Cabin (uncredited)
Jennie Lee
Mammy
Maxfield Stanley
Duke Cameron
Alma Rubens
Belle of 1861 (uncredited)
Fred Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
Dark Cloud
General (uncredited)
Carli Elinor
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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