The Birth of a Nation
“The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!”
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.
Details
Release Date: 3/8/1915
Runtime: 193 minutes
Languages: No Language
Director: D.W. Griffith
Budget: $0.1M
Revenue: $11.0M
Production
Companies: Epoch Film Co., D.W. Griffith Productions, Epoch Productions
Countries: United States of America
Where to watch · US
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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. - Roger Ebert
