The Birth of a Nation

Part of The Life of a Nation Collection

The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

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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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Creators

D. W. Griffith

director

D. W. Griffith

writer

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Frank E. Woods

writer

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Thomas F. Dixon Jr.

writer

Cast

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Lillian Gish actor

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Mae Marsh actor

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Henry B. Walthall actor

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Miriam Cooper actor

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Mary Alden actor

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Ralph Lewis actor

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George Siegmann actor

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Walter Long actor Robert Harron actor

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Wallace Reid actor

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Joseph Henabery actor Elmer Clifton actor Josephine Crowell actor

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Spottiswoode Aitken actor

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George Beranger actor

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Maxfield Stanley actor

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Jennie Lee actor

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Donald Crisp actor

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Howard Gaye actor

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Sam De Grasse actor