Fancy watching 'The Birth of a Nation' in the comfort of your own home? Discovering a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the D.W. Griffith-directed movie via subscription can be tricky, so we here at Moviefone want to take the pressure off.
Below, you'll find a number of top-tier streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'The Birth of a Nation' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the nitty-gritty of how you can watch 'The Birth of a Nation' right now, here are some details about the Epoch Film Co. history flick.
Released February 8th, 1915, 'The Birth of a Nation' stars Henry B. Walthall, Lillian Gish, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh The PG movie has a runtime of about 3 hr 13 min, and received a user score of 60 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 506 respected users.
Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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."
'The Birth of a Nation' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Kanopy, FlixFling, Popflick, and Public Domain Movies .
'The Birth of a Nation' Release Dates
Watch in Movie Theaters on February 8th, 1915
Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting
November 17th, 1998
- Buy The Birth of a Nation DVD
The Life of a Nation Collection
Two epics portraying fictional events within the context of America's history.
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