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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (2009)
Directed by Barak Goodman
Overview
Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln’s funeral train route and Booth’s desperate efforts to escape.
Rated NR | Length 90 minutes
Actors
Will Patton | Guy Gane | Jason Roberts | Alexander Fedorchak | Chris Cooper | Terry Alford | David Blight