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
Director
D.W. Griffith
Cast
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden
