The Birth of a Nation

21 Mar 1915 (USA)

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln’s assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln’s assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

Director: D.W. Griffith
Writer: Thomas Dixon Jr. / Thomas Dixon Jr. / Thomas Dixon Jr.
Stars: Henry B. Walthall / Lillian Gish / Mae Marsh / Miriam Cooper / Mary Alden
Genre: Drama / History / War
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