The Gettysburg Address (2025)
The Gettysburg Address is a 2025 documentary movie directed by Sean Conant, with a running time of 2h 45m. It stars Cary Elwes, Sam Elliott and Neal McDonough.
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.
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Cast
- Cary Elwes as John P. Jones (voice)
- Sam Elliott as Ward Hill Lamon (voice)
- Neal McDonough as Charles Sumner (voice)
- Dermot Mulroney as Andrew Curtin (voice)
- Matthew Broderick as Reader
- William Fichtner as John G. Nicolay (voice)
- Michael C. Hall as Leonard Swett (voice)
- Keith David as Frederick Douglass (voice)
- David Morse as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
- Aidan Quinn as Theodore Parker (voice)
- Gary Busey as John C. Calhoun (voice)
- David Strathairn as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)