Production Companies

Feature Productions, D.W. Griffith Productions, United Artists

Overview

"The wonder film of the century, about the most romantic figure who ever lived!"

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.