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