Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
The Birth of a Nation
“The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!”
5.9
1915
3h 15m
DramaHistoryWar
Director: D.W. Griffith
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.
Trailer
Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith - Trailer (1915)
Cast
Flora Cameron
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Col. Ben Cameron
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
Margaret Cameron
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Gus
Walter Long
Gus
Tod
Robert Harron
Tod
Jeff, the Blacksmith
Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith
Abraham Lincoln
Joseph Henabery
Abraham Lincoln
Stoneman's Elder Son Phil
Elmer Clifton
Stoneman's Elder Son Phil
Reviews
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He achieved what no other known man has ever achieved. To watch his work is like being witness to the beginning of melody, or the first conscious use of the lever or the wheel; the emergence, coordination, and first eloquence of language; thebirth of an art: and to realize that this is all the work of one man. - James Agee Griffith demonstrated to every filmmaker and moviegoer who followed him what a movie was, and what a movie could be. - Roger Ebert
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