The Birth of a Nation (1915)
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.
- Monte Blue
- Christy Cabanne
- Elmer Clifton
- Jack Conway
- Donald Crisp
- Allan Dwan
- Howard Gaye
- Fred Hamer
- Robert Harron
- Joseph Henabery
- Thomas E. O'Brien
- Herbert Sutch
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Erich von Stroheim
- Baron von Winther
- Raoul Walsh
- Henry B. Walthall
- Tom Wilson
- D.W. Griffith
- Frank E. Woods
- D.W. Griffith
- Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
- Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
Rating: 6/10 by 521 users
Alternative Title:
The Clansman - US
Die Geburt einer Nation - DE
En nations fødsel - DK
El naixement d'una nació - ES
Kansakunnan syntyminen - FI
Kansojen synty - FI
Ku-Klux-Klan - FI
Kansakunnan synty - FI
Amerika hőskora - HU
En nasjons fødsel - NO
Naşterea unei naţiuni - RO
In the Clutches of the Ku Klux Klan - US
Rodjenje nacije - YU
국가의 탄생 - KR
Η Γέννηση Ενός Έθνους - GR
El nacimiento de una nación - ES
국가의 생성 - KR
Country:
United States of America
Language:
No Language
Runtime: 03 hour 13 minutes
Budget: $100,000
Revenue: $11,000,000
Plot Keyword: army, ku klux klan, southern usa, racist, silent film, american civil war, reconstruction era, controversial
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
