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.

Featured Cast

Lillian Gish

Mae Marsh

Miriam Cooper

Mary Alden

Ralph Lewis

George Siegmann

Walter Long

Wallace Reid

Josephine Crowell

Spottiswoode Aitken