The Birth of a Nation

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 drama war movie directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.1/10 from 28,323 votes and runs 3h 15m.