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Overview
Two epics portraying fictional events within the context of America's history.
- Number of Movies: 2
- Revenue: $11,000,000
Featured Cast
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Col. Ben Cameron
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Virginia Holland
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Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
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Charles Waldron
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Margaret Cameron
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John Vassar
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Flora Cameron
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Angela Benda
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Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
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Billy
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Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
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Tomasso Benda (as Philip Gastrock)
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Lieut. Governor Silas Lynch
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Gen. Arnold (as C.H. Geldart)
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February 8, 1915
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.
June 6, 1916
A sequel to DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, by the same author, and now lost. It is considered the first film sequel ever made and recounts a fictional invasion of America by a united army from Europe.