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BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (MOTION PICTURE)

Details

  • NETWORK: N/A
  • DATE: November 30, 1914
  • RUNNING TIME: 1:27:58
  • COLOR/B&W: B&W
  • CATALOG ID: B:64075
  • GENRE: Drama, historical
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, historical; American culture; Racism
  • SERIES RUN: N/A
  • COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

  • David Gill … Producer
  • Kevin Brownlow … Producer
  • D.W. Griffith … Producer, Director, Writer
  • Patrick Stanbury … Associate Producer
  • Frank E. Woods … Writer
  • John Lanchbery … Music by
  • Joseph Carl Breil … Music by, Original Score by
  • Thomas Dixon … Based on the novel by
  • Henry B. Walthall … Cast, Col. Ben Cameron
  • Miriam Cooper … Cast, Margaret Cameron
  • Mae Marsh … Cast, Flora Cameron
  • Violet Wilkey … Cast, Flora as a child
  • Spottiswood Aitken … Cast, Dr. Cameron
  • Josephine Crowell … Cast, Mrs. Cameron
  • G.A. Beranger … Cast, Wade Cameron
  • Maxfield Stanley … Cast, Duke Cameron
  • Jennie Lee … Cast, Mammy
  • Ralph Lewis … Cast, Austin Stoneman
  • Lillian Gish … Cast, Elsie Stoneman
  • Elmer Clifton … Cast, Phil Stoneman
  • Robert Harron … Cast, Tod Stoneman
  • Mary Alden … Cast, Lydia Brown
  • George Siegmann … Cast, Silas Lynch
  • Walter Long … Cast, Gus
  • Wallace Reid … Cast, Jeff, the blacksmith
  • Joseph Henabery … Cast, Abraham Lincoln
  • Raoul Walsh … Cast, John Wilkes Booth
  • Donald Crisp … Cast, General U.S. Grant
  • Howard Gaye … Cast, General Robert E. Lee