The Gettysburg Address (film)

The Gettysburg Address is an upcoming American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Sean Conant. The film chronicles the evolution of freedom and equality in America and beyond, as told through the story of the Gettysburg Address.

The film features scholars, writers, politicians, dignitaries, conservators, and celebrities. Historians including James M. McPherson, Eric Foner, Harold Holzer, Allen C. Guelzo, David Blight, Drew Gilpin Faust, and Henry Louis Gates examine how Lincoln, with almost no formal education, crafted this eloquent and most famous speech in American history.

The Gettysburg Address also highlights evocations of the speech by political and cultural leaders.

Voice Cast

• Jason Alexander as Noah Brooks
• Ed Asner as Edward Everett
• Gary Busey as John C. Calhoun
• Kevin Conway as Daniel Webster
• Maxwell Perry Cotton as Albertus McCreery
• Keith David as Frederick Douglass
• Sam Elliott as Ward Hill Lamon
• Cary Elwes as Captain John P. Jones
• William Fichtner as John G. Nicolay
• Victor Garber as William Saunders
• Zachary Gordon as Daniel Skelly
• Michael C. Hall as Leonard Swett
• Neal McDonough as Charles Sumner
• David Morse as Abraham Lincoln
• Dermot Mulroney as Governor Andrew Curtin
• Aidan Quinn as Theodore Parker
• Lois Smith as Elizabeth Crawford
• David Strathairn as Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Lili Taylor as Emily Souder

Cast

• Matthew Broderick
• George Takei
• Tom Brokaw
• Laura Bush
• Henry Louis Gates
• Eric Foner
• James M. McPherson
• Harold Holzer
• David Blight
• James Oakes
• Gabor Boritt
• Jean H. Baker
• Thomas Desjardin
• Martin P. Johnson
• Drew Gilpin Faust
• Margaret Washington
• Eric Marcus
• Jeff Shaara
• Clay Risen
• Brenda Wineapple

• John Stauffer
• Dean Grodzins
• Sharon Ann Holt
• Jared Peatman
• Michael Burlingame
• Kent Gramm
• Daniel W. Stowell
• James Cornelius
• William Allman
• Phillip Kunhardt III
• William M. Fowler
• Richard Katula
• Michelle Krowl
• François Delattre
• [...] Durbin
• Kelly Ayotte
• Jeanne Shaheen
• Maggie Hassan

Archive footage

• George W. Bush
• Jimmy Carter

Release

The Gettysburg Address will be released in April 2015, in conjunction with the 150th anniversary commemorations of Lincoln's assassination and his life, and that of the end of the Civil War.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack features an orchestral score by Luke Richards and Civil War era contemporary music performed by President Lincoln's Own Band. The album will be released by Milan Records in Spring 2015.

Book

Oxford University Press will release a companion volume to the film. "The Gettysburg Address: Perspectives on Lincoln's Greatest Speech" (ISBN 9780190227449) will be released on April 1, 2015 and feature essays written by a lineup of renowned scholars, many of whom appear in the film.