The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation
Watch the birth of a nation 123Movies. 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.
- Genre: Drama, History, War
- Country: United States
- Director: D.W. Griffith
- 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, George Beranger, Maxfield Stanley, Jennie Lee, Donald Crisp, Howard Gaye, Sam De Grasse, William De Vaull, Willam Freeman,