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The Birth of a Nation

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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.

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Cast

Lillian GishMae MarshHenry B. WalthallMiriam CooperMary AldenRalph LewisGeorge SiegmannWalter LongRobert HarronWallace ReidJoseph HenaberyElmer Clifton

Director

D.W. Griffith

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