The Birth of a Nation

The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

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.

Cast

Lillian Gish

Mae Marsh

Henry B. Walthall

Miriam Cooper

Mary Alden

Ralph Lewis

George Siegmann

Walter Long

Robert Harron

Wallace Reid

Joseph Henabery

Elmer Clifton