Birth of a Nation 1915, 13~12 reels pr: EPOCH(Harry Aitken and D.W. Griffith) dr, ed: D.W. Griffith scr: D.W. Griffith and Frank Woods ph: G.W. Bitzer ast. ph: Karl Brown ast. dr: Raoul Walsh, W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway, George Siegmann music: Joseph Carl Breil (with D.W. Griffith) b/o "The Clansmen" novel/play and "The Leopard's Spots" novel both by Thomas Dixon Jr. Cast: Henry B. Walthall as Ben Cameron Lillian Gish as Elsie Stoneman Mae Marsh as Flora Cameron Miriam Cooper as Margaret Cameron Ralph Lewis as Austin Stoneman George Siegman as Silas Lynch Walter Long as Gus Mary Alden as Lydia (the Stoneman's housekeeper) Robert "Bobby" Harron as Tod Stoneman Elmer Clifton as Phil Stoneman Spottiswoode Aitken as Dr. Cameron Joseph Henabery as Abraham Lincoln Donald Crisp as Ulysses S. Grant Howard Gaye as Robert E. Lee Jennie Lee as Mammy Raoul Walsh as John Wilkes Booth Wallace Reed as Jeff The Blacksmith Elmo Lincoln as White-Arm Joe