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.
The Birth of a Nation has generally received mixed reviews.
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The Birth of a Nation was released in 1915 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 417 reviews, giving The Birth of a Nation (1915) an average rating of 60%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 81%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 75%.
With a score of 60%, The Birth of a Nation is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1915, which stands at 60%.
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