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