The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation

6.0

Feb 08 1915

3h 13m

Drama, History, War

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.

Henry B. Walthall

Henry B. Walthall

Col. Ben Cameron

Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish

Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

Miriam Cooper

Miriam Cooper

Margaret Cameron

Mae Marsh

Mae Marsh

Flora Cameron