The Birth of a NationMovie
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.
About The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 drama, history, war movie directed by D.W. Griffith.
The production information lists a runtime of 3h 15m, production credits from United States of America, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
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