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