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The Birth of a Nation
1915, Feb 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
Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Donald Crisp
Gen. U.S. Grant
Erich von Stroheim
Eugene Pallette
Union Soldier (uncredited)
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Walter Long
Gus
Monte Blue
(uncredited)
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
Tom Wilson
Stoneman's Servant (uncredited)
Charles Stevens
Volunteer (uncredited)
Robert Harron
Tod
Sam De Grasse
Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
George Beranger
Wade Cameron
George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Josephine Crowell
Mrs. Cameron
Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith
Elmo Lincoln
Blacksmith (uncredited)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Black Woman (uncredited)
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Howard Gaye
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Allan Sears
Klansman (uncredited)
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Spottiswoode Aitken
Dr. Cameron
Fred Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
Edmund Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
Alma Rubens
Belle of 1861 (uncredited)
Olga Grey
Laura Keene (uncredited)
Bob Burns
Klan Leader (uncredited)
Carli Elinor
Alberta Lee
Mrs. Lincoln (uncredited)
Jennie Lee
Mammy
Dark Cloud
General (uncredited)
Maxfield Stanley
Duke Cameron
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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