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The Birth of a Nation
1915, Mar 08
3h 13m
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
Erich von Stroheim
George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Donald Crisp
Gen. U.S. Grant
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
Walter Long
Gus
Eugene Pallette
Union Soldier (uncredited)
Monte Blue
(uncredited)
Charles Stevens
Volunteer (uncredited)
Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith
Edmund Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
George Beranger
Wade Cameron
Bob Burns
Klan Leader (uncredited)
Josephine Crowell
Mrs. Cameron
Olga Grey
Laura Keene (uncredited)
Spottiswoode Aitken
Dr. Cameron
Robert Harron
Tod
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Fred Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
Tom Wilson
Stoneman's Servant (uncredited)
Howard Gaye
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Sam De Grasse
Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Black Woman (uncredited)
Alma Rubens
Belle of 1861 (uncredited)
Elmo Lincoln
Blacksmith (uncredited)
Allan Sears
Klansman (uncredited)
Alberta Lee
Mrs. Lincoln (uncredited)
Jennie Lee
Mammy
Carli Elinor
Dark Cloud
General (uncredited)
Maxfield Stanley
Duke Cameron
Peggy Cartwright
Young Girl in Cabin (uncredited)
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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