Mange år før Abraham Lincoln bliver Amerikas 16. præsident, dræbes hans mor af vampyrer. Derfor er det kun naturligt, at 'Abe' ønsker hævn over de dæmoniske blodsugere. Som ung mand rekrutteres Lincoln af den gådefulde Henry Sturges, som lærer ham at nakke vampyrer med sølvpatroner. Lincoln skal siden få brug for sin træning, da borgerkrigen bryder ud mellem nord- og sydstaterne under hans præsidentskab.
Borgerkrigen raser på fjerde år, da USA's præsident, Abraham Lincoln, i 1865 forsøger at samle opbakning til en lovændring, der vil afskaffe slaveriet. Præsidenten finder støtte hos sin loyale udenrigsminister, William Seward, og det reformvenlige kongresmedlem Thaddeus Stevens. Men i Repræsentanternes Hus yder oppositionen voldsom modstand mod det kontroversielle forslag.
Den mandlige supermodel Derek bliver overgået af den blonde Hansel og beslutter sig for at forlade branchen. Han får imidlertid et godt tilbud fra en stor modedesigneren Mugatu, men inden han kan sige ”Armani”, er han ved at blive hjernevasket til at myrde Malaysias premierminister. Oven i hatten får man en kamp med vandpistol og benzin, dværge og et orgie med en ged.
Walter Huston, far til John og farfar til Anjelica Huston, og en af sin tids største karakterskuespillere, er en fremragende Abraham Lincoln i denne historisk korrekte, men også ind i mellem lidt stillestående filmbiografi om den berømte præsident. Alene for skuespillet er filmen seværdig, selv om det er indlysende, at instruktøren D.W. Griffith fejrede sine største triumfer i stumfilmsperioden, hvor replikkerne ikke, som her, stod i vejen for hans billedmageri.
April 14, 1865. One gunshot. One assassin hell-bent on killing a tyrant, as he charged the 16th President of the United States. And in one moment, our nation was forever changed. This is the most dramatic and resonant crime in American history—the true story of the killing of Abraham Lincoln.
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life on the developing frontier shaped one of our nation’s greatest heroes: Abraham Lincoln. Abe is a thoughtful and quiet boy who spends his days at the side of his beloved mother while learning to work the land from his stern father. When illness takes his mother, Abe's new guardian angel comes in the form of his new stepmother, who sees the potential in the boy and pushes for his further education.
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.
The almost entirely true story of Abraham Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the President's life, and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War.
A boy risks life and limb to travel across the war-torn southern states of America during the height of hostilities in the Civil War, hoping to visit his wounded brother in a field hospital on the other side of the country. His accidental meeting with Abraham Lincoln helps the disheartened president understand just how important the Gettysburg Address really is.
Speculative hokum about John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassination.
An internet personality takes a journey through the small, obscure, and downright bizarre conventions happening every weekend around the country as he tries to fit in and find the common link that unites these communities.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Parallels are drawn between Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the presidency of Donald Trump. Not since 1860 have the Democrats so fanatically refused to accept the result of a free election. That year, their target was Lincoln. They smeared him. They went to war to defeat him. In the end, they assassinated him.
A dramatization of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Based on the book by Jim Bishop.
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.