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Feature film — 2009

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (2009)

4.51h 30mDocumentary — History

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.

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Director: Barak Goodman

On screen

Cast & crew

Will Patton as John Wilkes Booth (Voice)

Will Patton

John Wilkes Booth (Voice)

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Guy Gane

John Wilkes Booth

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Jason Roberts

David Herold

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Alexander Fedorchak

Young John Wilkes Booth

Chris Cooper as Himself (Narrator)

Chris Cooper

Himself (Narrator)

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Terry Alford

Himself

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David Blight

Himself

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