The Birth of a Nation

The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Timing: 3:13 (193 min)

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Release date

1915-02-08

Country

United States

Production

Epoch Film Co.

Genre

Drama, History, War, Horror

Budget

$100 000

Revenue

$11 000 000

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Director

D.W. Griffith

Actors

Henry B. Walthall, Lillian Gish, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, Walter Long, Joseph Henabery, Wallace Reid
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Scenario

D.W. Griffith

Producer

D.W. Griffith, H.E. Aitken

Operator

Joseph Carl Breil

Composer

Jon Mirsalis

Artist

Audition

Editing

Joseph Henabery, James Smith, Rose Smith
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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.

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