The Birth of a Nation
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Mae Marsh · D.W. Griffith · Lillian Gish · Walter Long · George Siegmann · Frank E. Woods · Henry B. Walthall · Miriam Cooper · Wallace Reid · Robert Harron · Thomas F. Dixon Jr. · Ralph Lewis · Mary Alden
Studios & networks
D.W. Griffith Productions · Epoch Film Co. · Epoch Productions