The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Overview
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.
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writers
Frank E. Woods, D.W. Griffith, Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
Top Billed
Lillian Gish
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Reviews
prabhushakti
⭐ 10/10March 3, 2018
He achieved what no other known man has ever achieved. To watch his work is like being witness to the beginning of melody, or the first conscious use of the lever or the wheel; the emergence, coordination, and first eloquence of language; thebirth of an art: and to realize that this is all the work of one man. - James Agee
Griffith demonstrated to every filmmaker and moviegoer who followed him what a movie was, and what a movie could be. - Rog… read the rest.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$100,000
Revenue
$11,000,000