Overview - The Birth of a Nation

Overview

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.

Cast

• Name: Lillian Gish

  Character: Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

  Popularity: 8.0594

  

• Name: Mae Marsh

  Character: Flora Cameron

  Popularity: 0.9273

  

• Name: Henry B. Walthall

  Character: Col. Ben Cameron

  Popularity: 2.1818

  

• Name: Miriam Cooper

  Character: Margaret Cameron

  Popularity: 2.3425

  

• Name: Mary Alden

  Character: Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia

  Popularity: 2.9458

  

• Name: Ralph Lewis

  Character: Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman

  Popularity: 1.0135

  

• Name: George Siegmann

  Character: Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch

  Popularity: 1.4911

  

• Name: Walter Long

  Character: Gus

  Popularity: 1.2523