The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Movie
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
Genres : Drama, History, War
Status : Released
Released : Mar 8, 1915
Tagline : The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
Length : 195 minutes
Cast
- Lillian Gish
- Mae Marsh
- Henry B. Walthall
- Miriam Cooper
- Mary Alden
- Ralph Lewis
- George Siegmann
- Walter Long
- Robert Harron
- Wallace Reid
- Joseph Henabery
- Elmer Clifton
- Josephine Crowell
- Spottiswoode Aitken
- George Beranger
- Maxfield Stanley
- Jennie Lee
- Donald Crisp
- Howard Gaye
- Sam De Grasse
- William De Vaull
- Willam Freeman
- Tom Wilson
- Fred Burns
- Allan Sears
- Elmo Lincoln
- Madame Sul-Te-Wan
- Raoul Walsh
- Monte Blue
- Harry Braham
- Bob Burns
- Edmund Burns
- Edward Burns
- Peggy Cartwright
- Dark Cloud
- Leonore Cooper
- Charles Eagle Eye
- John Ford
- Olga Grey
- Alberta Lee
- Betty Marsh
- Donna Montran
- Eugene Pallette
- Alma Rubens
- Charles Stevens
- Jules White
- Violet Wilkey
- David Butler
- Mary Wynn
Crew
- Producer : D.W. Griffith
- Original Music Composer : Jon Mirsalis
- Costume Design : Clare West
- Editor : Raoul Walsh
- Writer : D.W. Griffith
- Director of Photography : Joseph Carl Breil
- Editor : Joseph Henabery
- Editor : D.W. Griffith
- Editor : James Smith
- Director of Photography : Billy Bitzer
- Editor : Rose Smith
- Screenplay : Frank E. Woods
- Special Effects : Walter Hoffman
- Original Music Composer : D.W. Griffith
- Executive Producer : H.E. Aitken
- Costume Design : Robert Goldstein
- Assistant Director : Donald Crisp
- Stunts : Charles Eagle Eye
- Presenter : D.W. Griffith
- Assistant Director : Howard Gaye
- Assistant Director : Joseph Henabery
- Negative Cutter : Karl Malkames
- Music : Joseph Nurnberger
- Camera Operator : Karl Brown
- Assistant Director : Fred Hamer
- Assistant Director : Robert Harron
- Assistant Director : Tom Wilson
- Assistant Director : Raoul Walsh
- Carpenter : Shorty English
- Music : Joseph Carl Breil
- Assistant Director : Jack Conway
- Special Effects Supervisor : Walter Hoffman
- Security : Jim Kidd
- Assistant Director : Allan Dwan
- Assistant Property Master : Hal Sullivan
- Stunts : Monte Blue
- Assistant Director : Elmer Clifton
- Assistant Director : Thomas E. O'Brien
- Assistant Director : W.S. Van Dyke
- Painter : Cash Shockey
- Set Designer : Frank Wortman
- Assistant Director : Herbert Sutch
- Assistant Director : Erich von Stroheim
- Property Master : Ralph M. DeLacy
- Assistant Director : Christy Cabanne
- Special Effects : Fireworks Wilson
- Conductor : Carli Elinor
- Novel : Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
- Stunts : Leo Nomis
- Adaptation : Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
- Assistant Director : Monte Blue
- Assistant Director : Baron von Winther
- Assistant Director : Henry B. Walthall
- Director : D.W. Griffith