
Overview:
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.
Revenue:
$11,000,000
Date Released:
03/08/1915

Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron

Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron

Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron

Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia