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The Birth of a Nation

The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

5.9 average rating
★★★★★
5.9
No Language / 195 MIN. / 1915

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Lillian GishMae MarshHenry B. WalthallMiriam CooperMary AldenRalph LewisGeorge SiegmannWalter LongRobert HarronWallace ReidJoseph HenaberyElmer CliftonJosephine CrowellSpottiswoode AitkenGeorge BerangerMaxfield StanleyJennie LeeDonald CrispHoward GayeSam De GrasseWilliam De VaullWillam FreemanTom WilsonFred BurnsAllan SearsElmo LincolnMadame Sul-Te-WanRaoul WalshMonte BlueHarry BrahamBob BurnsEdmund BurnsEdward BurnsPeggy CartwrightDark CloudLeonore CooperCharles Eagle EyeJohn FordOlga GreyAlberta LeeBetty MarshDonna MontranEugene PalletteAlma RubensCharles StevensJules WhiteViolet WilkeyDavid ButlerMary Wynn

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