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The Life of a Nation Movies Online Streaming Guide

Two epics portraying fictional events within the context of America’s history.

  • The Birth of a Nation

    February 8, 1915

    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.

  • The Fall of a Nation

    June 6, 1916

    A sequel to DW Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, by the same author, and now lost. It is considered the first film sequel ever made and recounts a fictional invasion of America by a united army from Europe.

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