The Birth of a Nation
(1915)
March 8, 1915• 3h 15m
59%
TMDB ScoreOverview
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.
D.W. Griffith
Director
Top Billed Cast
LG
Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
MM
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
HBW
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
MC
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
MA
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
RL
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
GS
George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
WL
Walter Long
Gus
RH
Robert Harron
Tod
WR
Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith
