The Birth of a Nation (1915)
- Screenwriters:
- Frank E. Woods
- Directors:
- D.W. Griffith
- Producers:
- D.W. Griffith
- Cast:
- Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, Joseph Henabery, Josephine Crowell, Spottiswoode Aitken, Jennie Lee, George Siegmann, Elmer Clifton, George Beranger, Maxfield Stanley, Donald Crisp, ... Show all
Movie plot
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.
What is the movie The Birth of a Nation about?
The Birth of a Nation is a movie about American Civil War (1861-1865), Racism against Black People.
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