The Birth Of A Nation
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Initial release | USA |
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Directors | D. W. Griffith |
Box office | unknown; estimated $50–100 million |
Cast | Lillian Gish |
Mae Marsh | |
Henry B. Walthall | |
Miriam Cooper | |
Screenplay | D. W. Griffith |
Frank E. Woods | |
Thomas Dixon Jr. | |
Title link | Play trailer on YouTube |
Reviews | www.imdb.com |
Theatrical country of origin release date | USA |
Stori by | Nate Parker; Jean McGianni Celestin |
Box offic | $16.8 million |
Music by | Henry Jackman |
Produc by | Nate Parker; Kevin Turen; Jason Michael Berman; Aaron L. Gilbert; Preston Holmes |
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Theatrical region aware release date | USA |
Story by | Thomas Dixon Jr. |
Budget | 110,000 USD |
Producers | D. W. Griffith |
H.E. Aitken | |
Adapted from | The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan |
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ID | 532748 |
About The Birth Of A Nation
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron (Henry B. Walthall) is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman (Lillian Gish) petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father (Ralph Lewis) and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch (George Siegmann). … MORE