The Birth of a Nation
Drama
History
War
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.
1915-03-08
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Cast
Director
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Mae Marsh as Flora Cameron
Henry B. Walthall as Col. Ben Cameron
Miriam Cooper as Margaret Cameron
Mary Alden as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Ralph Lewis as Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
George Siegmann as Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Walter Long as Gus
Robert Harron as Tod
Wallace Reid as Jeff, the Blacksmith
Joseph Henabery as Abraham Lincoln
Elmer Clifton as Stoneman's Elder Son Phil
Josephine Crowell as Mrs. Cameron
Spottiswoode Aitken as Dr. Cameron
George Beranger as Wade Cameron
Maxfield Stanley as Duke Cameron
Jennie Lee as Mammy
Donald Crisp as Gen. U.S. Grant
Howard Gaye as Gen. Robert E. Lee
Sam De Grasse as Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)
Tom Wilson as Stoneman's Servant (uncredited)
Fred Burns as Klansman (uncredited)
Allan Sears as Klansman (uncredited)
Elmo Lincoln as Blacksmith (uncredited)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan as Black Woman (uncredited)
Raoul Walsh as John Wilkes Booth (uncredited)
Monte Blue as (uncredited)
Bob Burns as Klan Leader (uncredited)
Edmund Burns as Klansman (uncredited)
Peggy Cartwright as Young Girl in Cabin (uncredited)
Dark Cloud as General (uncredited)
John Ford as Klansman (uncredited)
Olga Grey as Laura Keene (uncredited)
Alberta Lee as Mrs. Lincoln (uncredited)
Eugene Pallette as Union Soldier (uncredited)
Alma Rubens as Belle of 1861 (uncredited)
Charles Stevens as Volunteer (uncredited)
Jules White as Confederate Soldier (uncredited)
David Butler as Northern Soldier / Confederate Soldier (uncredited)
Mary Wynn