The Birth of a Nation(1915)
The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
6.03h 13mDramaHistoryWar
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Written by Frank E. Woods, D.W. Griffith, Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
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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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- Released
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- 3h 13m
- Budget
- $100,000
- Revenue
- $11,000,000
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