Title: The Birth of a Nation (The Birth of a Nation)
Release Date: 1915-03-08
IMDB ID: tt0004972
Vote Average: 6 (581 votes)
Overview: 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: Lillian Gish (Stoneman's Daughter Elsie), Mae Marsh (Flora Cameron), Henry B. Walthall (Col. Ben Cameron), Miriam Cooper (Margaret Cameron), Mary Alden (Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia), Ralph Lewis (Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman),
Crew: D.W. Griffith (Producer), Jon Mirsalis (Original Music Composer), Clare West (Costume Design), Raoul Walsh (Editor), Joseph Carl Breil (Director of Photography), Joseph Henabery (Editor),
Release Date: 1915-03-08
IMDB ID: tt0004972
Vote Average: 6 (581 votes)
Overview: 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: Lillian Gish (Stoneman's Daughter Elsie), Mae Marsh (Flora Cameron), Henry B. Walthall (Col. Ben Cameron), Miriam Cooper (Margaret Cameron), Mary Alden (Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia), Ralph Lewis (Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman),
Crew: D.W. Griffith (Producer), Jon Mirsalis (Original Music Composer), Clare West (Costume Design), Raoul Walsh (Editor), Joseph Carl Breil (Director of Photography), Joseph Henabery (Editor),