The Birth of a Nation

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.

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  Robert Harron
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  Fred Hamer
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  Thomas E. O'Brien
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  Allan Dwan
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  Monte Blue
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  Jack Conway
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  Henry B. Walthall
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  Herbert Sutch

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  Lillian Gish
  Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
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  Mae Marsh
  Flora Cameron
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  Henry B. Walthall
  Col. Ben Cameron
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  Miriam Cooper
  Margaret Cameron
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  Mary Alden
  Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
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  Ralph Lewis
  Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
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  George Siegmann
  Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
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  Walter Long
  Gus
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  Robert Harron
  Tod
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  Wallace Reid
  Jeff, the Blacksmith
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  Joseph Henabery
  Abraham Lincoln
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  Elmer Clifton
  Stoneman's Elder Son Phil
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  Josephine Crowell
  Mrs. Cameron
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  Spottiswoode Aitken
  Dr. Cameron
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  George Beranger
  Wade Cameron
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  Maxfield Stanley
  Duke Cameron
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  Jennie Lee
  Mammy
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  Donald Crisp
  Gen. U.S. Grant
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  Howard Gaye
  Gen. Robert E. Lee
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  Sam De Grasse
  Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)