Abraham Lincoln Articles

Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals Oscar 2013 watch: Steven Spielberg's Lincoln has added several prestigious names to its cast. Two-time Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis (as Abraham Lincoln) and Sally Field (as Lincoln's wife, Mary Lincoln) will be joined by Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Jones will play Republican leader and congressman Thaddeus Stevens; Gordon-Levitt will incarnate Robert Todd Lincoln, the president's [...]

Starring Robin Wright as Mary Surratt, the only woman charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln, and James McAvoy as Surratt's lawyer, Robert Redford's courtroom drama The Conspirator bowed at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival. Whether or not The Conspirator ultimately garners lots of critical favor, it has no chance of getting into this year's Oscar race simply because Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions [...]

What is apparently the only surviving print of the 1913 silent short When Lincoln Paid was accidentally found by a contractor inside an old New Hampshire barn about to be demolished in 2008. The nitrate reels were then given to Keene State College Film Archives, which determined that the film couldn't be found in film archives. The tale of a mother of a dead Union [...]

Pixar’s Up topped the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend with $44.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Playing at 3,818 locations, the Pete Docter-directed animated adventure brought its domestic gross to $137.3 million after a strong two-week run. The plot follows a 78-year-old widower who takes his entire house on a trip to South America. Debuting in second [...]