The Birth of a Nation

8 February 1915193 min, ,

The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

Cast & Crew

Lillian Gish

Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

Mae Marsh

Flora Cameron

Henry B. Walthall

Col. Ben Cameron

Miriam Cooper

Margaret Cameron

Mary Alden

Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia

Ralph Lewis

Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman

George Siegmann

Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch

Wallace Reid

Jeff, the Blacksmith

Joseph Henabery

Abraham Lincoln

Elmer Clifton

Stoneman's Elder Son Phil

George Beranger

Wade Cameron

Directing

Erich von Stroheim

Assistant Director

Joseph Henabery

Assistant Director

Raoul Walsh

Assistant Director

Writing

Production

H.E. Aitken

Executive Producer

Camera

Joseph Carl Breil

Director of Photography

Billy Bitzer

Director of Photography

Sound

Jon Mirsalis

Original Music Composer

Fun Facts of Movie

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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