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 Actors: Alberta Lee, Allan Sears, Alma Rubens, Betty Marsh, Bob Burns, Charles Eagle Eye, Charles Stevens, Dark Cloud, David Butler, Donald Crisp, Donna Montran, Edmund Burns, Edward Burns, Elmer Clifton, Elmo Lincoln, Eugene Pallette, Fred Burns, George Beranger, George Siegmann, Harry Braham, Henry B. Walthall, Howard Gaye, Jennie Lee, John Ford, Joseph Henabery, Josephine Crowell, Jules White, Leonore Cooper, Lillian Gish, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Mae Marsh, Mary Alden, Maxfield Stanley, Miriam Cooper, Monte Blue, Olga Grey, Peggy Cartwright, Ralph Lewis, Raoul Walsh, Robert Harron, Sam De Grasse, Spottiswoode Aitken, Tom Wilson, Violet Wilkey, Wallace Reid, Walter Long, Willam Freeman, William De Vaull Directors: D. W. Griffith
