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The Birth of a Nation
Part of The Life of a Nation Collection
The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
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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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Lillian Gish
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Mae Marsh
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Henry B. Walthall
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Miriam Cooper
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Mary Alden
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Ralph Lewis
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George Siegmann
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Walter Long
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Robert Harron
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Wallace Reid
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Joseph Henabery
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Elmer Clifton
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Josephine Crowell
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Spottiswoode Aitken
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George Beranger
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Maxfield Stanley
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Jennie Lee
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Donald Crisp
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Howard Gaye
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Sam De Grasse
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