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.

• DirectorD.W. Griffith
• Release8 February 1915
• Genre
  Drama / History
• Duration3h 15m
• Budget$100,000
• Revenue$11,000,000
• Rate
  

  6.003
  548 reviews
• Productions

  Epoch Film Co.