The Birth of a Nation
Run Time: 195 mins
Air Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1915
Average Rating: ⭐ 5.967 (564 votes)
Epoch Film Co.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.