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Henry B. WalthallCol. Ben Cameron
Lillian GishStoneman's Daughter Elsie
Miriam CooperMargaret Cameron
Mae MarshFlora Cameron
Mary AldenStoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Ralph LewisLeader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
George SiegmannLieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Joseph HenaberyAbraham Lincoln
Wallace ReidJeff, the Blacksmith
D.W. GriffithDirector
Frank E. WoodsScreenplay
Billy BitzerDirector of Photography
Joseph Carl BreilDirector of Photography
Jon MirsalisOriginal Music Composer
D.W. GriffithOriginal Music Composer
D.W. GriffithProducer

The Birth of a Nation

D.W. Griffith · 1915 · 193 minutes · USA, USA
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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.

Henry B. WalthallCol. Ben Cameron
Lillian GishStoneman's Daughter Elsie
Miriam CooperMargaret Cameron
Mae MarshFlora Cameron
Mary AldenStoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Ralph LewisLeader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
George SiegmannLieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Joseph HenaberyAbraham Lincoln
Wallace ReidJeff, the Blacksmith
D.W. GriffithDirector
Frank E. WoodsScreenplay
Billy BitzerDirector of Photography
Joseph Carl BreilDirector of Photography
Jon MirsalisOriginal Music Composer
D.W. GriffithOriginal Music Composer
D.W. GriffithProducer
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