cast
- Henry B. Walthall
- Ben Cameron, the Little Colonel
- Miriam Cooper
- Margaret Cameron
- Mae Marsh
- Flora Cameron, the Little Sister
- Lillian Gish
- Elsie Stoneman
- Robert Harron
- Ted Stoneman
- Ralph Lewis
- The Honorable Austin Stoneman, Leader of the House
- Wallace Reid
- Jeff, the blacksmith
- George Siegmann
- Silas Lynch
- Alberta Lee
- Mrs. Lincoln
- Bessie Love
- Piedmont girl
- Charles Stevens
- Volunteer
- Donald Crisp
- Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
- Elmer Clifton
- Phil Stoneman
- Elmo Lincoln
- White Arm Joe
- Erich Von Stroheim
- Man who falls from Roof
- Eugene Pallette
- Wounded Enemy to Whom Ben Gives Succor
- George Andre Beranger
- Wade Cameron
- Howard Gaye
- Gen. Robert E. Lee
- Jennifer Lee
- Cindy, The Faithful Mummy
- John Ford
- Klansman
- Joseph Henaberry
- Abraham Lincoln
- Josephine Crowell
- Mrs. Cameron
- Mary Alden
- Lydia Brown, Stoneman's Mulatto Housekeeper
- Maxfield Stanley
- Duke Cameron
- Olga Grey
- Laura Keene
- Raoul Walsh
- John Wilkes Booth
- Sam de Grasse
- Sen. Charles Sumner
- Spottiswood Aitken
- Dr. Cameron
- Tom Wilson
- Stoneman's Negro Servant
- Violet Wilkey
- Flora as a child
- Walter Long
- Gus, a Renegade Negro
- William de Vaull
- Jake
- William Freeman
- Sentry
crew
- D.W. Griffith
- Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Composer (Music Score)
- Frank E. Woods
- Screenwriter
- Thomas Dixon
- Book Author
- Thomas F. Dixen
- Screenwriter
- Billy Bitzer
- Cinematographer
- The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
- Composer (Music Score)
- James Smith
- Editor
- Robert Goldstein
- Costume Designer
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