The Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address (2025)

The long road to freedom and equality

  • Genre: Documentary, History
  • Release Date: 2025-11-19
  • Runtime: 2h 45min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Rising Picture Company
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Sean Conant

Summary

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.

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  • 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
Directing Sean Conant Director
Writing Sean Conant Writer
Production Jim Conant Producer
Production Sean Conant Producer
Sound Luke Richards Music
Crew Sean Conant Cinematography
Costume & Make-Up Sheldon Bruck Makeup Artist
Costume & Make-Up Erin McNeill Makeup Artist
Sound Gary Zacuto Sound Engineer

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