The Birth of a Nation
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.
Top Billed 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
Featured Crew
D.W. Griffith
Producer
Jon Mirsalis
Original Music Composer
Clare West
Costume Design
Raoul Walsh
Editor
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Joseph Carl Breil
Director of Photography
Joseph Henabery
Editor
D.W. Griffith
Editor
James Smith
Editor
Billy Bitzer
Director of Photography
Rose Smith
Editor
Frank E. Woods
Screenplay
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