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1915

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.

Credits

Director

D.W. Griffith

Producers

D.W. Griffith , H.E. Aitken

Writers

D.W. Griffith , Frank E. Woods

Cinematographers

Joseph Carl Breil , Billy Bitzer

Composers

Jon Mirsalis , D.W. Griffith

Cast

Lillian Gish , Mae Marsh , Henry B. Walthall , Miriam Cooper , Mary Alden , Ralph Lewis , George Siegmann , Walter Long , Robert Harron , Wallace Reid

Studio

Epoch Film Co.

Genres

Drama History War

Posters

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