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