The Birth of a Nation
Film · 195 min · English · 1915
Directed by D.W. Griffith
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 c…
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- Catalogued entity (metadata)
- Epoch Film Co.
- Country of origin
- United States
- Catalogued
- 2026-09-27
- Registry ID
- MRR-1915-FLM-911377
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