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.
Director:D.W. Griffith
Writers: Thomas Dixon Jr. (adapted from his novel: "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan") (as Thomas F. Dixon Jr.) (play "The Clansman") (as Thomas F. Dixon Jr.) (novel "The Leopard's Spots") (as Thomas F. Dixon Jr.), D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods
Producer: D.W. Griffith
Composers: Joseph Carl Breil, D.W. Griffith
Cinematographer: G.W. Bitzer
Editors: D.W. Griffith, Joseph Henabery, James Smith, Rose Smith, Raoul Walsh
