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The Gettysburg Address

The long road to freedom and equality.

20252h 45mDocumentaryHistory

Overview

In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" investigates the five extant copies of Lincoln's famous speech, separating fact from fiction along the way. Lincoln's greater journey to Gettysburg is chronicled, from his early anti-slavery sentiments as a poor farmer's son to his rousing orations as one of America's greatest leaders.

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Cast

Dermot Mulroney
as Andrew Curtin (voice)

Neal McDonough
as Charles Sumner (voice)

Sam Elliott
as Ward Hill Lamon (voice)

William Fichtner
as John G. Nicolay (voice)

Keith David
as Frederick Douglass (voice)

George Takei
as Self

David Morse
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Michael C. Hall
as Leonard Swett (voice)

David Strathairn
as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)

Cary Elwes
as John P. Jones (voice)

Bob Gunton
as William Herndon (voice)

Matthew Broderick
as Reader