- HD 1080
- Runtime: 193m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: D.W. Griffith
- Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Lillian Gish, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh, Mary Alden
- keywords: army, ku klux klan, southern usa, racist, silent film, american civil war, reconstruction era, controversial
- Production_studio: Epoch Film Co.
- Slogan: The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
- providers: FlixFling
- The The Birth of a Nation is featured in the top rankings of 1915
- #7 in Top Drama Movies of 1915
- #1 in Top War Movies of 1915
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.
