National Film Registry
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.
Drama, War
DirectorD.W. Griffith
StarringLillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden
ComposerJon Mirsalis, D.W. Griffith
National Film Registry
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.
Drama, War
DirectorD.W. Griffith
StarringLillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden
ComposerJon Mirsalis, D.W. Griffith
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