Release Date
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Original Release
March 8, 1915
3h 15m
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
⭐ 6.0195 min
Overview
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.
Director
D.W. Griffith
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 7.0
Cast
Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
⭐10.7
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
⭐1.7
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
⭐2.3
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
⭐2.7
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
⭐1.4
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
⭐1.4
George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
⭐3.0
Walter Long
Gus
⭐1.7
Robert Harron
Tod
⭐2.8
Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith
⭐3.7
Genres
DramaHistoryWar
Production Companies
Epoch Film Co.
