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The Birth of a Nation
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Synopsis
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.
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Title:
The Birth of a Nation
Latest releases:
Feb. 8, 1915
Decade:
Years 1910
Country of origin:
United States of America
Duration
193mn
Actors
Lillian Gish,
Mae Marsh,
Henry B. Walthall,
Miriam Cooper
Source:
Public Domain via Wikipedia
(Internet Archive)
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