FILM

The Birth of a Nation

The Civil War divides friends and destroys families, but that's nothing compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after the war.

The Birth of a Nation
Released:
March 03, 1915

Cast:

Lillian Gish
Mae Marsh
Henry B. Walthall
Miriam Cooper
Mary Alden
Ralph Lewis
George Siegmann

Director:
D.W. Griffith

Producer:
D.W. Griffith

Written by:
D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods (screenplay) Thomas Dixon Jr. (novel)

Distributor:
Epoch Producing Corporation

Budget:
$110,000 (estimated)

Box Office:
$3,000,000

Rotten Tomatoes Score:
100%

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