The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Name: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2009-02-09
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 4.5
Cast: Will Patton, Guy Gane, Jason Roberts, Alexander Fedorchak, Chris Cooper

4.5 (2)2009-02-091h 30m

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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.