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.
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> D.W. Griffith (Director)
> Joseph Carl Breil (Director of Photography)
> Billy Bitzer (Director of Photography)
> Monte Blue (Assistant Director)
> Christy Cabanne (Assistant Director)
> Elmer Clifton (Assistant Director)
> Jack Conway (Assistant Director)
> Donald Crisp (Assistant Director)
> Allan Dwan (Assistant Director)
> Howard Gaye (Assistant Director)
> Fred Hamer (Assistant Director)
> Robert Harron (Assistant Director)
> Joseph Henabery (Assistant Director)
> Thomas E. O'Brien (Assistant Director)
> Herbert Sutch (Assistant Director)
> W.S. Van Dyke (Assistant Director)
> Erich von Stroheim (Assistant Director)
> Baron von Winther (Assistant Director)
> Raoul Walsh (Assistant Director)
> Henry B. Walthall (Assistant Director)
> Tom Wilson (Assistant Director)
> Frank E. Woods (Screenplay)
> D.W. Griffith (Writer)
> Thomas F. Dixon Jr. (Novel)
> Thomas F. Dixon Jr. (Adaptation)
> Thomas F. Dixon Jr. (Original Film Writer)
