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The Birth of a Nation

The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

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1915

3h 13m

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.

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Director

D.W. Griffith

Writer

Frank E. Woods, D.W. Griffith, Thomas F. Dixon Jr., Thomas F. Dixon Jr.

Studios

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

Cast

49 credited

Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron

The Birth of a Nation

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