The Birth of a Nation

Name: The Birth of a Nation
Director: D.W. Griffith
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1915-03-08
Duration: 195 min
Rating: 5.932
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden

“The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!”

5.9(621)NR19153h 15mEN

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Directed by D.W. Griffith

Part of the The Life of a Nation Collection

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.