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David Wark Griffith

Birth of a Nation

Director David Wark Griffith Cast Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper
195' - 1915 - War, Historical, Drama
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.

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Credits

Directors

David Wark Griffith

Cast

Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper

Scenario

Thomas Dixon Jr., David Wark Griffith, Frank E. Woods

Director of Photography

G.W. Bitzer

Editors

David Wark Griffith, Joseph Henabery, James Smith, Rose Smith, Raoul Walsh

Producers

David Wark Griffith

Production studios

David W. Griffith Corp., Epoch Producing Corporation

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Countries of production

United States of America

Screenplay based on

"The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan" (Thomas F. Dixon Jr.)

Year

1915