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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

Robert Harron
Assistant Director
Fred Hamer
Assistant Director
Thomas E. O'Brien
Assistant Director

Allan Dwan
Assistant Director
Monte Blue
Assistant Director
Jack Conway
Assistant Director

Henry B. Walthall
Assistant Director
Herbert Sutch
Assistant Director
W.S. Van Dyke
Assistant Director

Tom Wilson
Assistant Director
Raoul Walsh
Assistant Director
Erich von Stroheim
Assistant Director

Donald Crisp
Assistant Director
Howard Gaye
Assistant Director
Christy Cabanne
Assistant Director

Baron von Winther
Assistant Director
Elmer Clifton
Assistant Director
Joseph Henabery
Assistant Director



Cast

Lillian Gish
Character: Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Mae Marsh
Character: Flora Cameron
Henry B. Walthall
Character: Col. Ben Cameron

Miriam Cooper
Character: Margaret 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
Robert Harron
Character: Tod

Wallace Reid
Character: Jeff, the Blacksmith
Joseph Henabery
Character: Abraham Lincoln
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: Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)
William De Vaull
Character: Nelse (uncredited)

Willam Freeman
Character: Jake / Sentry at Hospital (uncredited)
Tom Wilson
Character: Stoneman's Servant (uncredited)
Fred Burns
Character: Klansman (uncredited)

Allan Sears
Character: Klansman (uncredited)
Elmo Lincoln
Character: Blacksmith (uncredited)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Character: Black Woman (uncredited)

Raoul Walsh
Character: John Wilkes Booth (uncredited)
Monte Blue
Character: (uncredited)
Harry Braham
Character: Cameron's Male Servant (uncredited)

Bob Burns
Character: Klan Leader (uncredited)
Edmund Burns
Character: Klansman (uncredited)
Edward Burns
Character: Klansman (uncredited)

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

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

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

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

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


Production and Crew

Frank E. Woods
Screenplay
Billy Bitzer
Director of Photography


Clare West
Costume Design
Joseph Carl Breil
Director of Photography
Jon Mirsalis
Original Music Composer


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

Robert Goldstein
Costume Design
Karl Brown
Camera Operator

Jim Kidd
Security

Walter Hoffman
Special Effects Supervisor

Carli Elinor
Conductor

Fireworks Wilson
Special Effects

Frank Wortman
Set Designer
Hal Sullivan
Assistant Property Master

Ralph M. DeLacy
Property Master
Karl Malkames
Negative Cutter