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.
6.0 / 10
1915-02-08
D.W. Griffith
3h 13m
Budget: $100,000
Revenue: $11,000,000
Col. Ben Cameron
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Margaret Cameron
Flora Cameron
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
Gus
Abraham Lincoln
Jeff, the Blacksmith