The Birth of a Nation

Duration : 3 h 15 min

Status : Released

Description : 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.

Budget : 100,000

Revenue : 11,000,000

Release Date : Mon Feb 08 1915

Genres : Drama, History, War,