The Birth of a Nation
Two families, abolitionist Northerners that the Stonemans and also Southern landowners that the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's contentious Civil War epic. Nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon, when Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is recorded in conflict. In Reconstruction-era Sc, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling the congressman daddy Silas Lynch, and his of Elsie.
Released: 1915-02-08