The birth of a nation [videorecording] / produced under the personal direction of D.W. Griffith [& Harry E. Aitken] ; story arranged by D.W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods.
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Ralph Lewis, Wallace Reid, Henry Walthall. Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1915. Based on the novel The Clansman, by Thomas Dixon.
Summary:
Recounts the events leading up to and immediately fter the Civil War. Ben Cameron, a brave yet disillusioned Confederate soldier, creates a covert group of impassioned Southerners called the Ku Klux Klan as an answer to the supposed problem of the rise and rule of blacks and carpetbaggers. Bent on revenge, Ben leads his KKK followers in a war to suppress the black threat to white society, ultimately restoring "order" to his beloved South.
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