The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

IMDb 4.5 2009 • 90 min • DocumentaryHistory

Director

Barak Goodman

Country

Plot Summary

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.

Top 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)