The Birth of a Nation

Name: The Birth of a Nation
Director: D.W. Griffith
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1915-03-08
Duration: 195 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden

TrailerHDNRIMDB: 5.9

The Birth of a Nation (1915) is a drama, history, war directed by D.W. Griffith rated 5.9/10.

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.

Released: 1915-03-08

Duration: 3h 15m

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America

Director: D.W. Griffith

Writer: Frank E. Woods, D.W. Griffith

Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper

Production: Epoch Film Co., D.W. Griffith Productions