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