The Birth of a Nation

Release Date: 1915-02-08

Runtime: 195

Languages: No Language

Rating: 6

Votes: 551

Genres: Drama | History | War

Director: D.W. Griffith

Description: 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 hi...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.Read More

Production Companies:

Epoch Film Co.