
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