The Birth of a Nation (1915) 6.1 26,892
26,892 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.
Actors:George Siegmann, Henry B. Walthall, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Mary Alden, Miriam Cooper, Ralph Lewis, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, Walter Long
Directors:Allan Dwan, Baron von Winther, Christy Cabanne, D.W. Griffith, Donald Crisp, Elmer Clifton, Erich von Stroheim, Fred Hamer, Henry B. Walthall, Herbert Sutch, Howard Gaye, Jack Conway, Joseph Henabery, Monte Blue, Raoul Walsh, Robert Harron, Thomas E. O'Brien, Tom Wilson, W.S. Van Dyke