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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.

"The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!"

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Review by: prabhushakti

He achieved what no other known man has ever achieved. To watch his work is like being witness to the beginning of melody, or the first conscious use of the lever or the wheel; the emergence, coordination, and first eloquence of language; thebirth of an art: and to realize that this is all the work of one man. - James Agee Griffith demonstrated to every filmmaker and moviegoer who followed him what a movie was, and what a movie could be. - Roger Ebert

Reviewer rating: 10.0

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Lillian Gish

Stoneman's Daughter Elsie


Mae Marsh

Flora Cameron


Henry B. Walthall

Col. Ben Cameron


Miriam Cooper

Margaret Cameron


Mary Alden

Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia


Ralph Lewis

Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman


George Siegmann

Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch


Walter Long

Gus


Robert Harron

Tod

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