Your rating
Play trailer
60
TMDB
584
-
V&R
0
Favorites
Watchlist
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
Donald Crisp
Gen. U.S. Grant
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
Eugene Pallette
Union Soldier (uncredited)
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Monte Blue
(uncredited)
Erich von Stroheim
Walter Long
Gus
Robert Harron
Tod
Alma Rubens
Belle of 1861 (uncredited)
Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Sam De Grasse
Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Charles Stevens
Volunteer (uncredited)
George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Black Woman (uncredited)
George Beranger
Wade Cameron
Spottiswoode Aitken
Dr. Cameron
Elmo Lincoln
Blacksmith (uncredited)
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
Tom Wilson
Stoneman's Servant (uncredited)
Allan Sears
Klansman (uncredited)
Fred Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
Howard Gaye
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Edmund Burns
Klansman (uncredited)
Olga Grey
Laura Keene (uncredited)
Josephine Crowell
Mrs. Cameron
Jennie Lee
Mammy
Maxfield Stanley
Duke Cameron
Dark Cloud
General (uncredited)
Alberta Lee
Mrs. Lincoln (uncredited)
Carli Elinor
Peggy Cartwright
Young Girl in Cabin (uncredited)
Bob Burns
Klan Leader (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)
Mary Wynn
Herbert Sutch
0