The Birth of a Nation The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

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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Drama
History
War
Release Date

Feb 08, 1915

Duration: 3h 15 min

Popularity: 3.4095
546 votes
Directed by

D.W. Griffith

Screenplay by

Frank E. Woods

Productions

Epoch Film Co.

Collection
The Life of a Nation Collection
Budget 100.0 K

11.0 M

Top Cast

Crew & Team

Frank E. Woods

Screenplay

D.W. Griffith

Writer

Thomas F. Dixon Jr.

Adaptation

Thomas F. Dixon Jr.

Novel

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