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