The Birth of a Nation (1915)

US:: PG 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.

Updated May 9 2020

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1915-02-08

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FACTS

Runtime: 193 mins Revenue: $11,000,000 Budget: $100,000 Rating: 6.3 Tag Line: The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

Cast

Joseph Henabery

Abraham Lincoln

Lillian Gish

Elsie Stoneman

Mae Marsh

Flora Cameron

Henry B. Walthall

Col. Ben Cameron

Miriam Cooper

Margaret Cameron

Mary Alden

Lydia Brown

Ralph Lewis

Austin Stoneman

Josephine Crowell

Mrs. Cameron

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Crew

Thomas F. Dixon Jr.

Author

Frank E. Woods

Screenplay

H.E. Aitken

Executive Producer

Joseph Carl Breil

Director of Photography

Jon Mirsalis

Original Music Composer

Billy Bitzer

Director of Photography