The Birth of a Nation
Original Title: The Birth of a Nation
193 min.
drama, history, war
Stars: lillian gish, mae marsh, henry b. walthall, miriam cooper
Directors: d.w. griffith, monte blue, christy cabanne, elmer clifton, jack conway, donald crisp, allan dwan, howard gaye, fred hamer, robert harron, joseph henabery, thomas e. o'brien, herbert sutch, w.s. van dyke, erich von stroheim, baron von winther, raoul walsh, henry b. walthall, tom wilson
Country: USA
Release: 1915-02-08
Movie Info
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.