The Birth of a Nation
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1915-03-08
Runtime: 195 mins
Director: D.W. Griffith
Writer: D.W. Griffith
Spoken language: No Language
Genres: Drama, History, War
Original title: The Birth of a Nation
Production Companies: Epoch Film Co.
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Lillian Gish
Mae Marsh
Henry B. Walthall
Miriam Cooper
Mary Alden
Ralph Lewis
George Siegmann
Walter Long
Robert Harron
Wallace Reid
Joseph Henabery
Elmer Clifton
Josephine Crowell
Spottiswoode Aitken
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