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.
Released: 1915-02-08
Runtime: 193 minutes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden
Director: Erich von Stroheim, Thomas F. Dixon Jr., Thomas F. Dixon Jr., Frank E. Woods, H.E. Aitken