The Birth of a Nation

PG
6.2 / 10

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.

Language : English
Audio Languages :
Genre : Drama , History , War
Run Time : 3hr 13mins
Release Date : 08 Feb,1915
Cast : Lillian Gish (Stoneman's Daughter Elsie) , Mae Marsh (Flora Cameron) , Henry B. Walthall (Col. Ben Cameron) , Miriam Cooper (Margaret Cameron) , Mary Alden (Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia) , Ralph Lewis (Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman) ...
Directors : D.W. Griffith , Tom Wilson , Donald Crisp
Producers : D.W. Griffith , H.E. Aitken