The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Name: The Birth of a Nation
Director: D.W. Griffith
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1915-03-08
Duration: 3 h 13 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden

The Birth of a Nation (1915) is a Drama, History, War film directed by D.W. Griffith, rated 5.9/10 by 600 viewers.

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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Directed by D.W. Griffith. Starring Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden.