The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan!
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.
$100,000
$11,000,000
March 8, 1915
Epoch Film Co., D.W. Griffith Productions
49 people
Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Acting
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Acting
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
Acting
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Acting
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
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Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
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George Siegmann
Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
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Walter Long
Gus
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Robert Harron
Tod
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Wallace Reid
Jeff, the Blacksmith
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Joseph Henabery
Abraham Lincoln
Directing
Elmer Clifton
Stoneman's Elder Son Phil
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