Name: The Birth of a Nation
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 08 Mar 1915
Rating: 5.037
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden

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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.

Release: Mar 08, 1915

Runtime: 193 minutes

Language: No Language

Studio: Epoch Film Co., D.W. Griffith Productions, Epoch Productions

Country: United States of America

Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis

Crew: Frank E. Woods (Screenplay), H.E. Aitken (Executive Producer), Joseph Carl Breil (Director of Photography), Jon Mirsalis (Original Music Composer), Billy Bitzer (Director of Photography), Joseph Henabery (Editor)

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The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

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