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