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UNITED STATES · 1915

The Birth of a Nation

D.W. Griffith
Classical Hollywood American Civil War Reconstruction Era Ku Klux Klan Sectional Conflict Interregional Romance
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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.

Year1915
CountryUnited States
DirectorD.W. Griffith
MovementClassical Hollywood
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