The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

CAST: LILLIAN GISH, MAE MARSH, HENRY B. WALTHALL, MIRIAM COOPER, MARY ALDEN,RALPH LEWIS, GEORGE SIEGMANN, WALTER LONG, ROBERT HARRON, WALLACE REID, JOSEPH HENABERY, ELMER CLIFTON, JOSEPHINE CROWELL, SPOTTISWOODE AITKEN, GEORGE BERANGER, MAXFIELD STANLEY, JENNIE LEE, DONALD CRISP, HOWARD GAYE, MONTE BLUE, HARRY BRAHAM, BOB BURNS, EDMUND BURNS, EDWARD BURNS, FRED BURNS, DAVID BUTLER, PEGGY CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM E. CASSIDY, DARK CLOUD, LENORE COOPER
DIRECTOR: D.W. GRIFFITH
DURATION: 195 MINS