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The Birth of a Nation

1915·195 min

The Birth of a Nation

Directed by D.W. Griffith

DramaHistoryWar

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.

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Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

Flora Cameron

Henry B. Walthall

Col. Ben Cameron

Margaret Cameron

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Joseph Carl Breil

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The Birth of a Nation (1915) is about 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.

Who directed The Birth of a Nation?

D.W. Griffith directed The Birth of a Nation (1915).

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