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.

Events leading up to and following the Civil War are dramatized in this classic silent film by D.W. Griffith.

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