The Birth of a Nation (1915)

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

D.W. Griffith(1875-1948)

Director

Lillian Gish(1893-1993)

as Elsie - Stoneman's Daughter

Mae Marsh(1894-1968)

as Flora Cameron - The Pet Sister

Henry B. Walthall(1878-1936)

Actor

Miriam Cooper(1891-1976)

as Margaret Cameron - The Elder Sister

Mary Alden(1883-1946)

as Lydia Brown - Stoneman's Mulatto Housekeeper

Ralph Lewis(1872-1937)

as Hon. Austin Stoneman - Leader of the House

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