“D. W. Griffith’s film chronicles the relationship between two families, the Northern Stonemans and the Southern Camerons, through the anarchy of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Events during the Civil War, Lincoln’s assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan are all dramatised.”
Director: D.W. Griffith
Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall
