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Publisher
HBO Documentary Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It chronicles how five generations of one American family have shared the "glorious burden" of collecting, preserving and documenting a treasure trove of photographs, rare books and artifacts relating to Abraham Lincoln. In the years following the Civil War, Peter Kunhardt's ancestors, in particular, his great-grandfather, Frederick Hill Meserve, collected photographs that might have been lost forever.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[010], ©010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Views Lincoln's life, from his early days as a young woodsman to his election to the presidency in 1860. Includes his first love with Ann Rutledge, his marriage to Mary Todd, his early law practice, and his debates with Stephen Douglas.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In light of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, this documentary focuses on many of the controversial aspects of Lincoln's life--race, equality, religion, politics and depression. Interviews re-enactors, relic hunters, authors, scholars and Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to gain perspectives on Lincoln's life and thoughts.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 186 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The only two films with sound from silent film director D. W. Griffith: Abraham Lincoln (1931, features Walter Huston) and The Struggle (a man who gives up drinking to marry the woman of his dreams goes back to the bottle years later).
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (244 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
'Mr. Lincoln' (1952) was an ambitious five-part biographical drama by renowned author, screenwriter and film critic James Agee that revealed the early life of America's foremost political icon. Three additional Civil War-themed Omnibus presentations: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1955), an excerpt from the Harriet Beecher Stowe classic adapted by Ellen Violett; 'The Four Flags of the Confederacy' (1955), a 14-minute historical feature by Arnold Sundgaard;...
9) Lincoln
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed as if through the president's own eyes, Lincoln goes deeper than any documentary has before to reveal the troubled depths behind the man known as the Great Emancipator.
10) The tall target
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Former police officer John Kennedy doesn't have a ticket, but he's determined to stay aboard the overnight train rolling from New York to Washington, D.C. He's convinced that someone or someones among the passengers intends to kill newly elected President Abraham Lincoln when the train stops in Baltimore. The true life Baltimore Plot provides the inspiration for this Hollywood thriller"--Container.
11) The address
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"At the tiny Greenwood School in the small New England town of Putney, Vermont, its roughly 50 students, boys from the ages 11 to 17 are asked each year to memorize the Gettysburg Address. This would be a daunting assignment for any student, but the boys at Greenwood all suffer from learning differences that have made their personal, academic and social progress extremely challenging. As the students come to terms with the address's simple message...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On March 4, 1865, at the United States Capitol, a crowd of fifty thousand listened as President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a station in Washington, D.C. Dignitaries and government officials crowded the first eight cars. In the ninth rode the body of Abraham...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the fateful balcony in Ford's Theatre to Dr. Samuel Mudd's remote home to the fiery showdown in a Virginia farmhouse, experience firsthand the suspenseful, breakneck search for America's first presidential assassin. Discover the awesome reach of his conspiracy, which had further targeted Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward in a bid to undermine the U.S. Government and give the Confederacy a second chance. No man...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865"--Internet Movie Database.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Braids together the stories behind Lincoln's appearance at Gettysburg, his speech that day, and its dissemination to explore Lincoln's roles as military commander, chief executive, and minister to a wounded and grieving people.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Weaves the lives of Abraham and Mary Lincoln; Abraham the dirt-farmer's son turned Great Emancipator and Mary the emotionally fragile daughter of wealthy Southern slave-owners. Together, they ascended to the pinnacle of power at this crucial time in the nation's history. Abraham Lincoln's legacy reshaped the nation while the tragedy of his death left Mary reclusive and forgotten.
17) Abraham Lincoln
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (321 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Abraham Lincoln is a definitive biography of the 16th president, the man who led the country during its greatest crisis. Featuring over seven hours of compelling live-action scripted scenes, interviews with esteemed historians and public figures including President Barack Obama as well as archival materials, and segments acknowledging the invaluable influence of abolitionists-such as Frederick Douglass in seizing the moment for fundamental change,...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
19) The conspirator
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Second-disc collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President and others. Against the ominous backdrop of post-Civil War Washington, war hero Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy) reluctantly agrees to defend the lone woman charged, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), before a military tribunal. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save...
20) The Civil War
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2011, 1990.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (11 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns's Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
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