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