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

Cary Elwes

John P. Jones (voice)

Sam Elliott

Ward Hill Lamon (voice)

Neal McDonough

Charles Sumner (voice)

Dermot Mulroney

Andrew Curtin (voice)

Matthew Broderick

Reader

William Fichtner

John G. Nicolay (voice)

Michael C. Hall

Leonard Swett (voice)

Keith David

Frederick Douglass (voice)

David Morse

Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Aidan Quinn

Theodore Parker (voice)

Gary Busey

John C. Calhoun (voice)

David Strathairn

Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)