Released:
1915-03-08

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.

Director:
D.W. Griffith

Runtime:
3h 15min

Genre:
Drama, History, War

• Cast:
• 
  Lillian Gish
  as
  Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
• 
  Mae Marsh
  as
  Flora Cameron
• 
  Henry B. Walthall
  as
  Col. Ben Cameron
• 
  Miriam Cooper
  as
  Margaret Cameron
• 
  Mary Alden
  as
  Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia