The Birth of a Nation

Name: The Birth of a Nation
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Released: 1915
Duration: 195 min
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden

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Genre

Action Drama History War

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in "The Birth of a Nation". When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman (Lillian Gish) 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.

🎬 Enhanced by REEL Also stars Lillian Gish in The Night of the Hunter

Cast Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden

Released 1915 · 195 min

Language English

Added 24 Jul 2019

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