The Birth of a Nation
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith’s controversial Civil War epic. 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.
Director: Allan Dwan, Baron von Winther, Christy Cabanne, D.W. Griffith, Donald Crisp, Elmer Clifton, Erich von Stroheim, Fred Hamer, Henry B. Walthall, Herbert Sutch, Howard Gaye, Jack Conway, Joseph Henabery, Monte Blue, Raoul Walsh, Robert Harron, Thomas E. O'Brien, Tom Wilson, W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: Henry B. Walthall, Jennie Lee, Joseph Henabery, Josephine Crowell, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Mary Alden, Miriam Cooper, Ralph Lewis, Spottiswoode Aitken
Country: USA
