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The Birth of a Nation

Name: The Birth of a Nation
Director: D.W. Griffith
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1915-03-08
Duration: 195 min
Rating: 5.953
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden

Release Date: March 8, 1915

Genre: Drama, History, War

Duration: 3h 15m

Rating: ⭐ 6.0/10

Director: D.W. Griffith

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

Storyline

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.