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The Birth of a Nation

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.

1915 |3h 15m |  Drama, History, War

Videos

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Lillian Gish

Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

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Mae Marsh

Flora Cameron

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Henry B. Walthall

Col. Ben Cameron

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Miriam Cooper

Margaret Cameron

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Mary Alden

Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia

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Ralph Lewis

Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman

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George Siegmann

Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch

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Walter Long

Gus

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Robert Harron

Tod

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Wallace Reid

Jeff, the Blacksmith

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Josephine Crowell

Mrs. Cameron

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Spottiswoode Aitken

Dr. Cameron

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George Beranger

Wade Cameron

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Maxfield Stanley

Duke Cameron

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Jennie Lee

Mammy

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Donald Crisp

Gen. U.S. Grant

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Howard Gaye

Gen. Robert E. Lee

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Sam De Grasse

Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)

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Tom Wilson

Stoneman's Servant (uncredited)

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Fred Burns

Klansman (uncredited)

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Allan Sears

Klansman (uncredited)

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Elmo Lincoln

Blacksmith (uncredited)

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Madame Sul-Te-Wan

Black Woman (uncredited)

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Monte Blue

(uncredited)

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Bob Burns

Klan Leader (uncredited)

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Edmund Burns

Klansman (uncredited)

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Peggy Cartwright

Young Girl in Cabin (uncredited)

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Dark Cloud

General (uncredited)

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Olga Grey

Laura Keene (uncredited)

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Alberta Lee

Mrs. Lincoln (uncredited)

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Eugene Pallette

Union Soldier (uncredited)

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Alma Rubens

Belle of 1861 (uncredited)

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Charles Stevens

Volunteer (uncredited)

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Status

Released

Language

No Language

Budget

$100,000.00

Revenue

$11,000,000.00