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