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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln proved himself a master of a new frontier--not on the battlefields of the Civil War, but in his "high-tech" command center, the War Department Telegraph Office. The telegraph was the "Internet" of the nineteenth century, and it gave Lincoln powers of command, communications, and control never before exercised by a commander-in-chief. He used this new technology to connect the country to him--receiving nearly live dispatches...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Returning to the historic era of his greatest success, Griffith paid homage to the sixteenth President in this moving drama starring Walter Huston (The treasure of the Sierra Madre). Focusing on Lincoln's personal tragedies, as well as his great accomplishments, Griffith's film depicts the American icon with a sensitivity and grace rivaled only by John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln.
Publisher
Kartemquin Educational Films
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
This film chronicles the intense creative journey of Bill T. Jones - a 2010 Kennedy Center Honors recipient and two-time Tony Award winner for Best Choreography - as he tackles the most ambitious work of his career and leads the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in the creation of Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray, an original dance-theater piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial commissioned by Ravinia Festival.
5) Lincoln
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Abraham Lincoln's early years as a lawyer in Springfield, IL. The film is essential John Ford Americana; Fonda's Lincoln is a mythic rugged individualist.
Series
Griffith masterworks volume 2
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Abraham Lincoln: directed by D.W. Griffith, this Lincoln effort was one of the great talking films of the post-silent film era. These brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, his affair with Ann Rutledge, his courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln/Douglas debates. His presidency and the Civil War are followed in more detail, and the film concludes with the assassination.
The struggle: A departure from the historial...
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Abraham Lincoln's early years as a lawyer in Springfield, Illinois. The film is essential John Ford Americana; Fonda's Lincoln is a mythic rugged individualist.
10) The tall target
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009].
Language
English
Description
"Former police officer John Kennedy doesn't have a ticket, but he's determined to stay aboard the overnight train rolling from New York to Washington, D.C. He's convinced that someone or someones among the passengers intends to kill newly elected President Abraham Lincoln when the train stops in Baltimore. The true life Baltimore Plot provides the inspiration for this Hollywood thriller."--Container.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The film tells the story of a tiny school in Putney Vermont, the Greenwood School, where each year the students are encouraged to memorize, practice and recite the Gettysburg Address. In its exploration of the Greenwood School, the film also unlocks the history, context and importance of President Lincoln's most powerful address. The Greenwood School students, boys ages 11-17, all face a range of complex learning differences that make their personal,...
12) Lincoln
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Filmed as if through the president's own eyes, Lincoln goes deeper than any documentary has before to reveal the troubled depths behind the man known as the Great Emancipator.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
16) Killing Lincoln
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, describing the events surrounding the murder and the hunt to track down John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life shaped the life of Abraham Lincoln. Using glorious cinematography to conjure an America where the land was raw, the film sheds new light on the formative years of the future president and the two women who molded him into one of the most revered men in American history.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Views Lincoln's life, from his early days as a young woodsman to his election to the presidency in 1860. Includes his first love with Ann Rutledge, his marriage to Mary Todd, his early law practice, and his debates with Stephen Douglas.
20) Lincoln
Publisher
[Distributed by] Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Reveals the political and personal struggles of President Lincoln as he guided the nation through the Civil War while confronting his own family tragedies.
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