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The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 8, 1915

Runtime

3h 13m

Genres

Drama, History, War

User Score

60%

Original Title

The Birth of a Nation

Production Companies

Epoch Film Co.

Director

D.W. Griffith

Budget

$100,000

Revenue

$11,000,000

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.