The Birth of a Nation

1915

3h 15m

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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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D.W. Griffith

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Frank E. Woods(screenplay by)

D.W. Griffith(writer by)

Thomas F. Dixon Jr.(novel by)

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Lillian Gish

Mae Marsh

Henry B. Walthall

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Lillian Gish

Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

Flora Cameron

Col. Ben Cameron

Margaret Cameron

Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia

Ralph Lewis

Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman

George Siegmann

Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch

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Tod

Jeff, the Blacksmith

Abraham Lincoln

Stoneman's Elder Son Phil

Mrs. Cameron

Dr. Cameron

Wade Cameron

Duke Cameron

Mammy

Gen. U.S. Grant

Directors

D.W. Griffith

Writers

Frank E. Woods(screenplay by)

D.W. Griffith(writer by)

Thomas F. Dixon Jr.(novel by)

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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

prabhushakti03 Mar, 2018