The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
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.
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Written by: Frank E. Woods, D.W. Griffith, Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
Music by: Jon Mirsalis, D.W. Griffith, Joseph Carl Breil, Joseph Nurnberger
Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, Walter Long, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1915-03-08
Runtime: 195 minutes
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