Where to Watch The Birth of a Nation Online

Looking to watch 'The Birth of a Nation' on your TV or mobile device at home? Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the D.W. Griffith-directed movie via subscription can be a huge pain, so we here at Moviefone want to do the work for you.

We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'The Birth of a Nation' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'The Birth of a Nation' right now, here are some specifics 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 collated reviews from 530 well-known 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 Flix House, Public Domain Movies, JustWatchTV, FlixFling, Hoopla, and Kanopy .