names: The Birth of a Nation
genre: Drama, History, War
overview: 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.
crew: Lillian Gish, Stoneman's Daughter Elsie, Mae Marsh, Flora Cameron, Henry B. Walthall, Col. Ben Cameron, Miriam Cooper, Margaret 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, Wallace Reid, Jeff, the Blacksmith
orig_title: The Birth of a Nation