The Birth of a Nation

IMDb 6.0HDNR1915

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.

Country: United States of America
Genres: Drama, History, War
Released: 1915-03-08
Directors: D.W. Griffith
Productions: Epoch Film Co., D.W. Griffith Productions, Epoch Productions
Casts: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden