The Gettysburg Address

Sean Conant
2025-11-19

The long road to freedom and equality
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165 min

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

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