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The Birth of a Nation
"The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!"
1915 • 3h 15m • ★ 5.9 (578 votes) Released
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
Writer
D.W. Griffith
Screenplay
Frank E. Woods
Rating
5.9
Runtime
195 min
Budget
$0.1M
Revenue
$11.0M
Profit/Loss
+10.9M
Production
Epoch Film Co.
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prabhushakti
★ 10/10 • Mar 3, 2018
Keywords
armyku klux klansouthern usasilent filmamerican civil warreconstruction erahistorical epicinspirationalawestruckoptimisticfeel-good



















