The Birth of a Nation
D.W. Griffith | United States of America
February 8, 1915 | 193m
The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
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Overview:
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.
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| Henry B. Walthall | Col. Ben Cameron |
| Lillian Gish | Stoneman's Daughter Elsie |
| Miriam Cooper | Margaret Cameron |
| Mae Marsh | Flora Cameron |
| Mary Alden | Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia |
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