The Birth of a Nation

Name: The Birth of a Nation
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1915-03-08
Rating: 5.959
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden

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Information

Producer:D.W. Griffith

Year:1915

Genre:Drama, History, War

Popularity:2

Duration:3:13

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Cast

Lillian GishMae MarshHenry B. WalthallMiriam CooperMary AldenRalph LewisGeorge Siegmann

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.