The Birth of a Nation
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.
Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Lillian Gish, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, Walter Long, Joseph Henabery, Wallace Reid, Elmer Clifton, Josephine Crowell, Spottiswoode Aitken
Crew: Frank E. Woods (Screenplay), H.E. Aitken (Executive Producer), Joseph Carl Breil (Director of Photography), Jon Mirsalis (Original Music Composer), Billy Bitzer (Director of Photography)