Movie: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Top 7 Billed Cast

Will Patton
Will Patton

John Wilkes Booth (Voice)

Guy Gane
Guy Gane

John Wilkes Booth

Jason Roberts
Jason Roberts

David Herold

Alexander Fedorchak
Alexander Fedorchak

Young John Wilkes Booth

Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper

Himself (Narrator)

Terry Alford
Terry Alford

Himself

David Blight
David Blight

Himself

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    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.

  • Release Date

    2009-02-09

  • Average

    4.5

  • Rating:

    2.3 starts
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    English
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