The Birth of a Nation

3h 15m 1915 Drama, History, War United States of America

Budget: $100,000 Revenue: $11,000,000

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.

Director

D.W. Griffith

Writer

Frank E. Woods, D.W. Griffith

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