Your rating
Play trailer
60
TMDB
544
-
V&R
0
Favorites
Watchlist
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
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Fred Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
Monte Blue
(uncredited)
Donald Crisp
Gen. U.S. Grant
Erich von Stroheim
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
Tom Wilson
Stoneman's Servant (uncredited)
Robert Harron
Tod
Walter Long
Gus
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Black Woman (uncredited)
Eugene Pallette
Union Soldier (uncredited)
Charles Stevens
Volunteer (uncredited)
Bob Burns
Klan Leader (uncredited)
Edmund Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
Spottiswoode Aitken
Dr. Cameron
Carli Elinor
Howard Gaye
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
George Beranger
Wade Cameron
George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Olga Grey
Laura Keene (uncredited)
Sam De Grasse
Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)
Josephine Crowell
Mrs. Cameron
Alma Rubens
Belle of 1861 (uncredited)
Dark Cloud
General (uncredited)
Elmo Lincoln
Blacksmith (uncredited)
Allan Sears
Klansman (uncredited)
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Alberta Lee
Mrs. Lincoln (uncredited)
Jennie Lee
Mammy
Maxfield Stanley
Duke Cameron
Peggy Cartwright
Young Girl in Cabin (uncredited)
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
0