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