The Birth of a Nation

Release Date:
Feb 8, 1915
Running Time:
3:10
Genre:
Drama
Director:
D.W. Griffith
Cast:
Lillian Gish Elsie Stoneman
Mae Marsh Flora Cameron
Henry B. Walthall Col. Ben Cameron
Miriam Cooper Margaret Cameron
Mary Alden Lydia Brown
Ralph Lewis Austin Stoneman
George Siegmann Silas Lynch
Walter Long Gus
Robert Harron Tod Stoneman
Wallace Reid Jeff (blacksmith)
Joseph Henabery Abraham Lincoln/13 other bits
Elmer Clifton Phil Stoneman
Josephine Crowell Mrs. Cameron
Spottiswoode Aitken Dr. Cameron
George Andre Beranger Wade Cameron
Maxfield Stanley Duke Cameron
Jennie Lee Mammy
Donald Crisp Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Howard Gaye Gen. Robert E. Lee
Sam De Grasse Sen. Sumner (uncredited)
Raoul Walsh John Wilkes Booth (uncredited)
Eugene Pallette Union soldier (uncredited)
Elmo Lincoln Blacksmith (uncredited)
Olga Grey Laura Keene (uncredited)
William De Vaull Jake (uncredited)
Tom Wilson Stoneman's servant
Violet Wilkey Flora as a child (uncredited)
Alberta Lee Mrs. Lincoln (uncredited)
Producers:
D.W. Griffith
Writers:
D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods, Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
Language:
English
Related Programs:
Intolerance
Broken Blossoms
Greed
Ben-Hur
The Coward

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The Birth of a Nation

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic. 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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