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