The Birth of a Nation
Overview:
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic. 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. Released: 1915
Casts:
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, Howard Gaye, Raoul Walsh, Walter Long, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, Robert Harron, Monte Blue, Harry Braham, Bob Burns, Edmund Burns, Edward Burns, Fred Burns, Peggy Cartwright, Dark Cloud, Leonore Cooper, Sam De Grasse, William De Vaull, Charles Eagle Eye, John Ford, Willam Freeman, Olga Grey, Alberta Lee, Elmo Lincoln, Betty Marsh, Donna Montran, Eugene Pallette, Alma Rubens, Allan Sears, Charles Stevens, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Jules White, Violet Wilkey, Tom Wilson, D. W. Griffith, Walter Huston, David Butler
