Film
The Birth of a Nation
Release year
1915
Synopsis
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.
Directed by
D.W. Griffith
Cast
Henry B. Walthall
Lillian Gish
Miriam Cooper
Mae Marsh
Mary Alden
Ralph Lewis
Poster artist
Einar Nerman