The Birth of a Nation (1915)

NR ★ 5.9/10 195 min Drama, History, War United States English

Director: D.W. Griffith

Writer: D.W. Griffith
Screenplay by: Frank E. Woods
Novel: Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
Adaptation: Thomas F. Dixon Jr.

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The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

Description

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.