The Birth of a Nation
1915 • Drama | History
D.W. Griffith
Writer
D.W. Griffith
Director
Status
Released
Release date
March 8, 1915
Duration
195 Min
Language
en
Popularity
1.7548
Budget
$100,000
Revenue
$11,000,000
Overview
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.
Cast
Lillian Gish
Mae Marsh
Henry B. Walthall
Miriam Cooper
Mary Alden
Ralph Lewis
George Siegmann
Walter Long
Robert Harron
Wallace Reid
Joseph Henabery
Elmer Clifton
Josephine Crowell
Spottiswoode Aitken
George Beranger
Maxfield Stanley
Jennie Lee
Donald Crisp
Howard Gaye
Sam De Grasse
Tom Wilson
Fred Burns
Allan Sears
Elmo Lincoln
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Raoul Walsh
Monte Blue
Bob Burns
Edmund Burns
Peggy Cartwright
Dark Cloud
John Ford
Olga Grey
Alberta Lee
Eugene Pallette
Alma Rubens
Charles Stevens
Jules White
David Butler
Mary Wynn
