Watch The Birth of a Nation (1915) : Online Movies 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. | ||
Release Date | : | Feb 08, 1915 |
Runtime | : | |
Genres | : | Drama, History, War |
Production Company | : | Epoch Film Co. |
Production Countries | : | United States of America |
Casts | : | Henry B. Walthall, Lillian Gish, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, Walter Long, Joseph Henabery, Wallace Reid, Elmer Clifton |
Plot Keywords | : | army, ku klux klan, southern usa, racist, silent film, american civil war, reconstruction era, controversial |
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