The Birth of a Nation
IMDb6.01080P1915193 min
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.
- Country: United States of America
- Genres: Drama, History, War
- Released: 1915-03-08
- Directors: D.W. Griffith
- Productions: Epoch Film Co., D.W. Griffith Productions, Epoch Productions
- Casts: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall
