• Genre: History
• Movie Type: Politics & Government, Biography
• Themes: Heads of State
• Director: Peter W. Kunhardt
• Release Year: 1992
• Run Time: 60 minutes

Plot

President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the bloodshed from the fighting at Antietam and Fredericksburg distressed him greatly. 1863 was the year of his Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address. Listen to the story of the events that led to the amazing address at Gettysburg. Actor Jason Robards brings to life the voice of President Lincoln. PBS originally aired this program, the second of a four-volume set narrated by actor James Earl Jones. ~ Linda J. Shriver, All Movie Guide

Cast

Ned Beatty - Dennis Hanks
Philip Bosco - Frederick Seward
Stockard Channing - Clara Harris
Jill Clayburgh - Emilie Todd Helm
Glenn Close - Mary Todd Lincoln
Gordon Connell
Jim Dale - Baltimore Correspondent
Blythe Danner - Elizabeth Todd Edwards
Rex Everhart
Fred Gwynne - Edwin Stanton
Barnard Hughes - Horace Greeley
Jason Robards, Jr. - Abraham Lincoln
James Earl Jones - Narrator
Robert Katims
Stacy Keach - George McClellan
Frank Langella - John Wilkes Booth
Adam Le Fevre
Laurence Luckinbill - Joshua Speed
E.G. Marshall - Gideon Welles
Gordon Rigsby
John Shea - John Barnes
Maureen Stapleton - Sarah Bush Lincoln
Rod Steiger - U.S. Grant
Robert Vaughn - Isaac Arnold
Eli Wallach - William Crook
Richard Widmark - Ward Hill Lamon
Oprah Winfrey - Elizabeth Keckley
Robby Benson - William Stoddard
Keith Carradine - William Herndon
Dabney Coleman - Stephen A. Douglas
Ossie Davis - Frederick Douglas
Richard Dreyfuss - William T. Sherman
Burgess Meredith - Winfield Scott
Arnold Schwarzenegger - John G. Nicolay
Richard Thomas - John Hay
James Smith

Credit

Alan Menken - Composer (Music Score); John Martin - Editor; Peter W. Kunhardt - Director