The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Name: The Birth of a Nation
Director: D.W. Griffith
Released: 1915-03-08
Rating: 6.008
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden

Directed by D.W. Griffith

6.0

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.