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The Birth of a Nation
1915, Feb 08
3h 13m
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
Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith
Bob Burns
Klan Leader
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Charles Stevens
Volunteer
Erich von Stroheim
Donald Crisp
Gen. U.S. Grant
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
George Beranger
Wade Cameron
Monte Blue
Tom Wilson
Stoneman's Servant
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
Peggy Cartwright
Young Girl in Cabin
Howard Gaye
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Edmund Burns
Klansman
Fred Burns
Klansman
George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Eugene Pallette
Union Soldier
Robert Harron
Tod
Elmo Lincoln
Blacksmith
Maxfield Stanley
Duke Cameron
Jennie Lee
Mammy
Olga Grey
Laura Keene
Sam De Grasse
Charles Sumner
Spottiswoode Aitken
Dr. Cameron
Josephine Crowell
Mrs. Cameron
Walter Long
Gus
Alma Rubens
Belle of 1861
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Black Woman
Alberta Lee
Mrs. Lincoln
Dark Cloud
General
Allan Sears
Klansman
Carli Elinor
William De Vaull
Nelse
Willam Freeman
Jake / Sentry at Hospital
Harry Braham
Cameron's Male Servant
Edward Burns
Klansman
Leonore Cooper
Elsie's Maid
Betty Marsh
Child with Dr. Cameron
Donna Montran
Belle of 1861
Violet Wilkey
Young Flora Cameron
Herbert Sutch
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