David Wark Griffith
Birth of a Nation
Edition 1975
195'
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1915
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War, Historical, Drama
Director:
David Wark Griffith
With:
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper
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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Director
David Wark Griffith
With
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
Editor
David Wark Griffith, Joseph Henabery, James Smith, Rose Smith, Raoul Walsh
Producer
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
