The Birth of a Nation

Synopsis

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.

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When & where

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Top of the call sheet

• 
  Lillian Gish
  as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
• 
  Mae Marsh
  as Flora Cameron
• 
  Henry B. Walthall
  as Col. Ben Cameron
• 
  Miriam Cooper
  as Margaret Cameron
• 
  Mary Alden
  as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
• 
  Ralph Lewis
  as Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman

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