Key Details
Release StatusReleased
Release Date1915-03-08
Languageen
Runtime3h 15m
Budget$100,000
Revenue$100,000,000
Production
Epoch Film Co., D.W. Griffith Productions, Epoch Productions
Overview
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.
Principal Cast
50 credited
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