The Birth of a Nation (1915)

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Summary Details
Running Time3 hr 15 min
GenresDrama War
FilmmakersRole
D.W. Griffith Director
Thomas Dixon Jr. Writer
Thomas Dixon Jr. Writer
Thomas Dixon Jr. Writer
D.W. Griffith Writer
Frank E. Woods Writer
Woodrow Wilson Writer
John M. Hay Writer
John G. Nicolay Writer
D.W. Griffith Producer
Joseph Carl Breil Composer
D.W. Griffith Composer
G.W. Bitzer Cinematographer
D.W. Griffith Editor
Joseph Henabery Editor
James Smith Editor
Rose Smith Editor
Raoul Walsh Editor
CastRole
Lillian Gish
Elsie - Stoneman's Daughter
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron - The Pet Sister
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron aka The Little Colonel
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron - The Elder Sister