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