The Birth of a Nation
Drama
History
War
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Popularity
1.9
Companies
Epoch Film Co.
DirectorD.W. Griffith
WritersD.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods
Overview
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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