President’s Day Special: D.W. Griffith’s Abraham Lincoln

Celebrate President’s Day with a movie about a President we all love Abraham Lincoln

In a movie that bridge the silent film era into the talkie, see D.W. Griffith’s film Abraham Lincon which was the first talking picture about the Civil War that Civil War veterans could watch. A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln’s life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.

CAST: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne, Helen Freeman, Otto Hoffman

DIRECTOR: D.W. Griffith

RUN TIME: 96 min