- Country: USA
- Genres: Drama, History, War
- Release: 1915-03-21
- Director: D.W. Griffith
- Writers: Thomas Dixon Jr. , D.W. Griffith , Frank E. Woods
- Language: English
- Stars: Lillian Gish , Mae Marsh , Henry B. Walthall , Miriam Cooper , Mary Alden , Ralph Lewis , George Siegmann , Walter Long , Robert Harron , Wallace Reid
- Runtime: 195 min
- Awards: 2 wins
- AKA: The Birth of the Nation; Or The Clansman (United States of America) , Bir Ulusun Doğuşu (Turkey) , Kansakunnan synty (Finland) , The Clansman (United States of America) , Kokumin no sôsei (Japan) , The Birth of a Nation (Netherlands the) , The Birth of a Nation (Australia) , Naissance d'une nation (France, French Republic) , Η γέννηση ενός έθνους (Greece) , O Nascimento de Uma Nação (Brazil) , En nations fødsel (Denmark) , Zrození národa (Czech Republic) , The Birth of a Nation , Kansojen synty (Finland) , Die Geburt einer Nation (Germany) , El naixement d'una nació (Spain) , The Birth of a Nation (Canada) , El nacimiento de una nación (Argentina) , Tautos gimimas (Lithuania) , Narodziny narodu (Poland) , El nacimiento de una nación (Mexico) , O Nascimento de Uma Nação (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Rođenje jedne nacije (Croatia) , Egy nemzet születése (Hungary) , The Birth of a Nation (United States of America) , 國家的誕生 (Taiwan) , El nacimiento de una nación (Uruguay, Eastern Republic of) , El nacimiento de una nación , I gennisi enos ethnous (Greece) , En nasjons fødsel (Norway) , Рађање једне нације (Serbia) , Ku-Klux-Klan (Finland) , The Birth of a Nation (Canada) , The Birth of a Nation (India) , 国民の創生 (Japan) , Nașterea unei națiuni (Romania) , Рождение нации (Russian Federation) , Nationens födelse (Sweden) , Nascita di una nazione (Italy) , Kansakunnan syntyminen (Finland) , Рађање једне нације , Amerika hőskora (Hungary) , Раждането на една нация (Bulgaria) , The Birth of a Nation (Singapore) , El nacimiento de una nación (Spain) , In the Clutches of the Ku Klux Klan (United States of America) , The Birth of a Nation (United Kingdom)
- Plot:
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.
- IMDB:tt0004972
The Birth of a Nation Cast · · · ALL
D.W. Griffith
Director
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Walter Long
Gus
Joseph Henabery
Abraham Lincoln
Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith
Elmer Clifton
Stoneman's Elder Son Phil
Josephine Crowell
Mrs. Cameron
Spottiswoode Aitken
Dr. Cameron
George Beranger
Wade Cameron
Maxfield Stanley
Duke Cameron
Jennie Lee
Mammy
Donald Crisp
(I)
(1882–1974)
Gen. U.S. Grant
Howard Gaye
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Sam De Grasse
Charles Sumner
William De Vaull
Nelse
Tom Wilson
Stoneman's Servant
Fred Burns
Klansman
Allan Sears
Klansman
Elmo Lincoln
Blacksmith
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Black Woman