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    The Birth of a Nation 1915 POSTER

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915

    English

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    american civil war

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    ku klux klan

    racist

    silent film

    southern usa

    War

    D.W. Griffith D.W. Griffith Director Spottiswoode Aitken Spottiswoode Aitken as Dr. Cameron Lillian Gish Lillian Gish as Elsie - Stoneman's Daughter Dark Cloud Dark Cloud as General at Appomatox Surrender Elmo Lincoln Elmo Lincoln as White-Arm Joe - Blacksmith
    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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