The Gettysburg Address

165 minutes

11/19/2025

Overview

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 List

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)
Jason Alexander
as Noah Brooks (voice)
Ed Asner
as Edward Everett (voice)
Lili Taylor
as Emily Souder (voice)
Victor Garber
as William Saunders (voice)
Bob Gunton
as William Herndon (voice)
Zachary Gordon
as Daniel Skelly (voice)
Kelly Ayotte
as Senator (NH)
George Takei
as Self
Lois Smith
as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
Kevin Conway
as Daniel Webster (voice)
Maxwell Perry Cotton
as Albertus McCreery (voice)
George W. Bush
as Self (archive footage)
Tom Brokaw
as Self
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
as Self
Laura Bush
as Self