The Birth of a Nation

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The Birth of a Nation

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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.

Date: 03/08/1915

Rating: 5.9

Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, Walter Long, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, Joseph Henabery, Elmer Clifton, Josephine Crowell, Spottiswoode Aitken, George Beranger, Maxfield Stanley, Jennie Lee, Donald Crisp, Howard Gaye, Sam De Grasse, William De Vaull, Willam Freeman, Tom Wilson, Fred Burns, Allan Sears, Elmo Lincoln, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Raoul Walsh, Monte Blue, Harry Braham, Bob Burns, Edmund Burns, Edward Burns, Peggy Cartwright, Dark Cloud, Leonore Cooper, Charles Eagle Eye, John Ford, Olga Grey, Alberta Lee, Betty Marsh, Donna Montran, Eugene Pallette, Alma Rubens, Charles Stevens, Jules White, Violet Wilkey, David Butler, Mary Wynn

Lillian Gish