The Gettysburg Address
The long road to freedom and equality.
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.
Cast
Neal McDonough
Charles Sumner (voice)
William Fichtner
John G. Nicolay (voice)
Michael C. Hall
Leonard Swett (voice)
David Morse
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Gary Busey
John C. Calhoun (voice)
David Strathairn
Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)
Ed Asner
Edward Everett (voice)
Victor Garber
William Saunders (voice)
Cary Elwes
John P. Jones (voice)
Sam Elliott
Ward Hill Lamon (voice)
Lili Taylor
Emily Souder (voice)
George Takei
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Dermot Mulroney
Andrew Curtin (voice)
Matthew Broderick
Reader
Keith David
Frederick Douglass (voice)
Jason Alexander
Noah Brooks (voice)
Bob Gunton
William Herndon (voice)
Lois Smith
Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
Kevin Conway
Daniel Webster (voice)
Aidan Quinn
Theodore Parker (voice)
Zachary Gordon
Daniel Skelly (voice)
Maxwell Perry Cotton
Albertus McCreery (voice)
Tom Brokaw
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Laura Bush
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