The Life of a Nation: watch order
The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 4 h 30 min. Two epics portraying fictional events within the context of America's history.
Movie 1The Birth of a Nation (1915)
3 h 15 min · ★ 5.9
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…
Movie 2The Fall of a Nation (1916)
1 h 15 min · ★ 10.0
A sequel to DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, by the same author, and now lost. It is considered the first film sequel ever made and recounts a fictional invasion of America by a united army from Europe.
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