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