01.08.20 | LINCOLN

Based on Doris Kearns’ Pulitzer prize-winning book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Steven Spielberg’s masterful film tells the story of the last four months of Lincon’s life – when he ended slavery with the passage of the 13 th Amendment. Daniel Day-Lewis inhabits the character of Lincoln with such an acutely resonant presence and transformation that perhaps no other actor has ever achieved while playhing an historic character. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards, this film has uniquely powerful resonance in light of our current political climate and the divides that threaten our democracy.

Synopsis:

With the nation embroiled in still another year with the high death count of Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln brings the full measure of his passion, humanity and political skill to what would become his defining legacy: to end the war and permanently abolish slavery through the 13th Amendment. Having great courage, acumen and moral fortitude, Lincoln pushes forward to compel the nation, and those in government who oppose him, to aim toward a greater good for all mankind.