The Birth of a Nation
The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
3
Length195 mins
LanguageNo Language
Release Date1915-02-08
StatusReleased
Drama
History
War
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.