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.
Genre: Drama, History, War
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden
Producer: Erich von Stroheim, Thomas F. Dixon Jr., Thomas F. Dixon Jr., Frank E. Woods, H.E. Aitken
IMDb Score: 6.3/10 by 271 users
Runtime: 193 minutes
Released: 2/8/1915