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