The Birth of a Nation

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

Genre:

Drama,

History,

War

Duration:

195 minutes

Year:

1915

Director:

D.W. Griffith

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Company:

Epoch Film Co.

Budget:

$100,000

Revenue:

$11,000,000

Cast:

Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

Flora Cameron

Col. Ben Cameron

Margaret Cameron

Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia

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