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.
Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper, Henry B. Walthall, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, ...