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.

Keywords: ku-klux-klan, southern-usa, army, racist, silent-film, american-civil-war, reconstruction-era,

Title: The Birth of a Nation
Imdb rate: 6.3
Imdb votes: 22,844
Year: 1915
Language: None
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Director: D.W. Griffith
Writers: Thomas Dixon Jr. (adapted from his novel: "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan"), Thomas Dixon Jr. (play), Thomas Dixon Jr. (novel), D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods
Actors:
Lillian Gish
Mae Marsh
Henry B. Walthall
Miriam Cooper

Awards: 2 wins.