The Birth of a Nation (1915)

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.
Erich von Stroheim, Joseph Henabery, Raoul Walsh, Henry B. Walthall, Elmer Clifton, Donald Crisp, Howard Gaye, D. W. Griffith, Robert Harron, W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway, Allan Dwan, Monte Blue, Christy Cabanne, Tom Wilson, Herbert Sutch, Fred Hamer, Thomas E. O’Brien, Baron von Winther
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, Walter Long, Wallace Reid, Joseph Henabery, Elmer Clifton, Josephine Crowell, Spottiswoode Aitken, George Beranger, Maxfield Stanley, Jennie Lee, Donald Crisp, Howard Gaye, Sam De Grasse, William De Vaull, Willam Freeman, Tom Wilson, Fred Burns, Allan Sears, Elmo Lincoln, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Raoul Walsh, Robert Harron, Monte Blue, Harry Braham, Bob Burns, Edmund Burns, Edward Burns, Peggy Cartwright, Dark Cloud, Leonore Cooper, Charles Eagle Eye, John Ford, Olga Grey, Alberta Lee, Betty Marsh, Donna Montran, Eugene Pallette, Alma Rubens, Charles Stevens, Jules White, Violet Wilkey, David Butler
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