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