Full Metal Jacket
1987
The Birth of a Nation
8/2/1915 3h 15m 6.0/10
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.
Director
Christy Cabanne
Top Billed Cast
Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
Mary Alden
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Ralph Lewis
Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
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