The Birth of a Nation

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.

Director

D.W. Griffith

Written by

Frank E. Woods

Music

Jon Mirsalis

Studio

Epoch Film Co.

Released

8 March 1915

Genres

Drama, History, War