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The Birth of a Nation (1915)

The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!

Genre: Drama, History, War

Released: 1915-02-08

Runtime: 195 min.

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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195 min.
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