The Birth of a Nation
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3hrs
13mins
Directed by
H.E. Aitken,
D.W. Griffith,
Starring
Henry B. Walthall,
Lillian Gish,
Miriam Cooper,
Mae Marsh
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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.
