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 Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation
- DirectorD.W. Griffith
- GenresDrama, History
- CastHenry B. Walthall, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
