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The Birth of a Nation (1915)

6 | Mar 08, 1915 (US) | Drama, History, War | 03:15
Budget: 100 000 | Revenue: 11 000 000

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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Cast

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Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
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Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
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Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
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Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
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Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
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Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
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George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
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Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith

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prabhushakti
10 | Mar 03, 2018
He achieved what no other known man has ever achieved. To watch his work is like being witness to the beginning of melody, or the first conscious use of the lever or the wheel; the emergence, coordination, and first eloquence of language; thebirth of an art: and to realize that this is all the work of one man. - James Agee Griffith demonstrated to every filmmaker and moviegoer who followed him what a movie was, and what a movie could be. - Roger Ebert