The Birth of a Nation

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 8, 1915

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Epoch Film Co.,D.W. Griffith Productions,Epoch Productions

Cast

Lillian Gish,Mae Marsh,Henry B. Walthall,Miriam Cooper,Mary Alden,Ralph Lewis,George Siegmann,Walter Long,Robert Harron,Wallace Reidand 39 more

Director

D.W. Griffith

Writer

D.W. Griffith,Frank E. Woods,Thomas F. Dixon Jr.

Producer

D.W. Griffith,H.E. Aitken

Cinematography

Joseph Carl Breil,Billy Bitzer

Music

Jon Mirsalis,D.W. Griffith

Budget

$100,000

Revenue

$100,000,000

IMDb

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