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.
Henry B. Walthall
Lillian Gish
Miriam Cooper
Mae Marsh
Mary Alden
Ralph Lewis
George Siegmann
Walter Long
Joseph Henabery
Wallace Reid
Elmer Clifton
Josephine Crowell
Spottiswoode Aitken
George Beranger
Maxfield Stanley
Jennie Lee
Donald Crisp
Howard Gaye
Sam De Grasse
William De Vaull
Willam Freeman
Tom Wilson
Fred Burns
Allan Sears
Elmo Lincoln
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Raoul Walsh
Robert Harron
Monte Blue
Harry Braham
Bob Burns
Edmund Burns
Edward Burns
Peggy Cartwright
Dark Cloud
Leonore Cooper
Charles Eagle Eye
John Ford
Olga Grey
Alberta Lee
Betty Marsh
Donna Montran
Eugene Pallette
Alma Rubens
Charles Stevens
Jules White
Violet Wilkey
David Butler