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The Birth of a Nation

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Calorie Rating: 267
Released: 1915-02-08
MPAA Rating: PG
Running Time: 190 Minutes
Budget: 100000
Revenue 11000000
Studios: Epoch Film Co.,


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.

Director / Directors

Donald Crisp
Assistant Director
Howard Gaye
Assistant Director
Joseph Henabery
Assistant Director

Fred Hamer
Assistant Director
Robert Harron
Assistant Director
Tom Wilson
Assistant Director

Raoul Walsh
Assistant Director
Jack Conway
Assistant Director
Allan Dwan
Assistant Director

Elmer Clifton
Assistant Director
Thomas E. O'Brien
Assistant Director
W.S. Van Dyke
Assistant Director

Herbert Sutch
Assistant Director
Erich von Stroheim
Assistant Director
Christy Cabanne
Assistant Director

Monte Blue
Assistant Director
Baron von Winther
Assistant Director
Henry B. Walthall
Assistant Director



Cast

Henry B. Walthall
Character: Col. Ben Cameron
Lillian Gish
Character: Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Miriam Cooper
Character: Margaret Cameron

Mae Marsh
Character: Flora Cameron
Mary Alden
Character: Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Ralph Lewis
Character: Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman

George Siegmann
Character: Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Walter Long
Character: Gus
Joseph Henabery
Character: Abraham Lincoln

Wallace Reid
Character: Jeff, the Blacksmith
Elmer Clifton
Character: Stoneman's Elder Son Phil
Josephine Crowell
Character: Mrs. Cameron

Spottiswoode Aitken
Character: Dr. Cameron
George Beranger
Character: Wade Cameron
Maxfield Stanley
Character: Duke Cameron

Jennie Lee
Character: Mammy
Donald Crisp
Character: Gen. U.S. Grant
Howard Gaye
Character: Gen. Robert E. Lee

Sam De Grasse
Character: Charles Sumner
William De Vaull
Character: Nelse
Willam Freeman
Character: Jake / Sentry at Hospital

Tom Wilson
Character: Stoneman's Servant
Fred Burns
Character: Klansman
Allan Sears
Character: Klansman

Elmo Lincoln
Character: Blacksmith
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Character: Black Woman
Raoul Walsh
Character: John Wilkes Booth

Robert Harron
Character: Tod
Harry Braham
Character: Cameron's Male Servant

Bob Burns
Character: Klan Leader
Edmund Burns
Character: Klansman
Edward Burns
Character: Klansman

Peggy Cartwright
Character: Young Girl in Cabin
Dark Cloud
Character: General
Leonore Cooper
Character: Elsie's Maid

Charles Eagle Eye
Character: Man Who Falls from Roof
John Ford
Character: Klansman
Olga Grey
Character: Laura Keene

Alberta Lee
Character: Mrs. Lincoln
Betty Marsh
Character: Child with Dr. Cameron
Donna Montran
Character: Belle of 1861

Eugene Pallette
Character: Union Soldier
Alma Rubens
Character: Belle of 1861
Charles Stevens
Character: Volunteer

Jules White
Character: Confederate Soldier
Violet Wilkey
Character: Young Flora Cameron
David Butler
Character: Northern Soldier / Confederate Soldier


Production and Crew

Jon Mirsalis
Original Music Composer
Clare West
Costume Design

Joseph Carl Breil
Director of Photography


Billy Bitzer
Director of Photography
Frank E. Woods
Screenplay

Walter Hoffman
Special Effects
D.W. Griffith
Original Music Composer
H.E. Aitken
Executive Producer

Robert Goldstein
Costume Design

Karl Malkames
Negative Cutter
Karl Brown
Camera Operator

Walter Hoffman
Special Effects Supervisor

Jim Kidd
Security
Hal Sullivan
Assistant Property Master

Frank Wortman
Set Designer
Ralph M. DeLacy
Property Master

Fireworks Wilson
Special Effects
Carli Elinor
Conductor