Filmography › Thomas Dixon Jr

All the books by Thomas Dixon Jr adapted to cinema and television

Thomas Dixon Jr is known for being the author of the book The Clansman, first published in 1905, which was adapted to cinema by D.W. Griffith in 1915.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
The Birth of a Nation. Poster of the 1915 movie and cover of the 1905 book, The Clansman
VS3
The Clansman
Thomas Dixon Jr., 1905
movie vs book
The Birth of a Nation
D.W. Griffith, 1915

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.