6.0
(529)
Release Date: February 8, 1915
Runtime: 193 minutes
Budget: $100,000
Revenue: $11,000,000
The Birth of a Nation
Status
ReleasedGenres
Drama
History
War
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.
Top Cast
48 cast members
