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Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
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The Birth of a Nation(1915)
5.9 / 10 on TMDB195 minutes
The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
Behind the story
What is The Birth of a Nation about?
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.
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Directed by
- D.W. Griffith
- Release date
- Status
- Released
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Who stars in The Birth of a Nation?
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
