The Birth of a Nation
Also known as Birth of a Nation
1915 film directed by D. W. Griffith
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"The Birth of a Nation" is a 1915 film directed by D. W. Griffith that became one of the most technically innovative and widely watched movies of its era. The film is historically significant because of its groundbreaking cinematic techniques, though it is also deeply controversial for its racist content and depiction of the Reconstruction period.
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6.0Two 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.
Released: 1915-03-08193 minDir: D.W. GriffithDrama, History, WarBudget: $100,000Box office: $11.0MPart of: The Life of a Nation Collection
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Cast
- 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
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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced the film with Harry Aitken.