The Birth of a Nation

Drama, History, Romance, War, Western

Lillian Gish	Elsie Stoneman
Mae Marsh	Flora Cameron
Henry B. Walthall	Col. Ben Cameron
Miriam Cooper	Margaret Cameron
Mary Alden	Lydia Brown
Ralph Lewis	Austin Stoneman
George Siegmann	Silas Lynch
Walter Long	Gus
Robert Harron	Tod Stoneman
Wallace Reid	Jeff

Director	D.W. Griffith
Producer	D.W. Griffith; H.E. Aitken
Writer	Thomas F. Dixon Jr.

The Civil War divides friends and destroys families, but that's nothing compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after the war.