The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address
Release: 2025-11-19
·Runtime: 165m
Documentary
History
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Rising Picture Company
Cast
Jason Alexander
as Noah Brooks (voice)
Victor Garber
as William Saunders (voice)
George Takei
as Self
Maxwell Perry Cotton
as Albertus McCreery (voice)
Neal McDonough
as Charles Sumner (voice)
Matthew Broderick
as Reader
Zachary Gordon
as Daniel Skelly (voice)
Lois Smith
as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
Tom Brokaw
as Self
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
as Self
Laura Bush
as Self
Sam Elliott
as Ward Hill Lamon (voice)
Aidan Quinn
as Theodore Parker (voice)
Lili Taylor
as Emily Souder (voice)
Bob Gunton
as William Herndon (voice)
Kevin Conway
as Daniel Webster (voice)
David Strathairn
as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)
Ed Asner
as Edward Everett (voice)
Cary Elwes
as John P. Jones (voice)
Dermot Mulroney
as Andrew Curtin (voice)
William Fichtner
as John G. Nicolay (voice)
Michael C. Hall
as Leonard Swett (voice)
David Morse
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Gary Busey
as John C. Calhoun (voice)
Keith David
as Frederick Douglass (voice)