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The Birth of a Nation

The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

1915★ 5.9 · 6013h 13mDramaHistoryWar

Overview

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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Trailer · Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith - Trailer (1915)

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Cast

Raoul Walsh
as John Wilkes Booth (uncredited)

Lillian Gish
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

John Ford
as Klansman (uncredited)

Donald Crisp
as Gen. U.S. Grant

Jules White
as Confederate Soldier (uncredited)

Eugene Pallette
as Union Soldier (uncredited)

Monte Blue
as (uncredited)

Josephine Crowell
as Mrs. Cameron

Joseph Henabery
as Abraham Lincoln

David Butler
as Northern Soldier / Confederate Soldier (uncredited)

Elmer Clifton
as Stoneman's Elder Son Phil

George Beranger
as Wade Cameron

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Release date: 1915-03-08

Budget: $100,000

Revenue: $11,000,000

Runtime: 3h 13m

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DramaHistoryWar

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