The Birth of a Nation (1915)

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The Civil War divides friends and destroys families, but that's nothing compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after the war.

Director : D.W. Griffith

Writers : Thomas F. Dixon Jr. (novel "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan"), Thomas F. Dixon Jr. (play "The Clansman"), Thomas F. Dixon Jr. (novel "The Leopard's Spots"), D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods

Stars : Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall








Release Dates : 

• USA       : 8 February 1915 (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
• USA       : 3 March 1915
• Denmark : 22 March 1918
• Sweden   : 23 September 1918
• France     : 22 October 1920
• Spain       : 13 October 1921
• Finland    : 16 April 1922
• Japan      : 25 April 1924
• USA       : 18 December 1930 (New York City, New York) (re-release)
• Finland    : 25 September 1964 (re-release)
• Portugal   : 20 April 1965 (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
• USA        : 11 March 1970 (Rosslyn, Virginia) (re-release)
• Greece     : 11 October 2010 (Silent Film Festival)

Also Known As (AKA) :

• Argentina : El nacimiento de una nación
• Brazil : O Nascimento de Uma Nação
• Germany : Die Geburt einer Nation
• Denmark : En nations fødsel
• Spain (Catalan title) : El Naixement d'una nació
• Spain : El nacimiento de una nación
• Finland (reissue title) : Kansakunnan synty
• Finland : Kansakunnan syntyminen
• Finland : Kansojen synty
• Finland : Ku-Klux-Klan
• France : Naissance d'une nation
• Greece (DVD title) : I gennisi enos ethnous
• Hungary : Amerika hőskora
• Hungary (literal title) : Egy nemzet születése
• Italy : Nascita di una nazione
• Japan : Kokumin no sôsei
• Norway : En nasjons fødsel
• Poland : Narodziny narodu
• Portugal : O Nascimento de Uma Nação
• Sweden : Nationens födelse
• USA (cut version) : In the Clutches of the Ku Klux Klan
• USA (second copyright title) : The Birth of the Nation; Or The Clansman
• USA (Los Angeles première title) : The Clansman
• World-wide (Spanish title) : El nacimiento de una nación

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