The Birth of a Nation
The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
1915 3h 15m 5.9Movie
DramaHistoryWar
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.
Cast
Lillian GishMae MarshHenry B. WalthallMiriam CooperMary AldenRalph LewisGeorge SiegmannWalter LongRobert HarronWallace ReidJoseph HenaberyElmer Clifton
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