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The Birth of a Nation

PG 1915 Drama, History, War · 3h 13m
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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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Movie Score

60%

Released

February 8, 1915,

Director

D.W. Griffith

Film Series

The Life of a Nation Movies

Cast

Henry B. Walthall, Lillian Gish, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis

Genre

Drama, History, War

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