The Birth of a Nation
5.9/10
Release: 08/03/1915
Duration: 3h 15m
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.
Country: United States of America
Language: No Language
Director:D.W. Griffith
Writers
| Writer:D.W. Griffith
| Screenplay:Frank E. Woods
| Novel:Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
| Adaptation:Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
Production
Epoch Film Co.
Budget: $100,000
Revenue: $11,000,000
