The Birth of a Nation backdrop

The Birth of a Nation

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.

Drama
War

1915 | 3 h 15 min

Director: D.W. Griffith

Stars: Henry B., Walthall

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