Lincoln: Trial by Fire (1974)
Cliff Robertson narrates this dramatization focuses on the little-known life-and-death struggle of power between President Lincoln and his general in command of the Army of the Potomac, George McClellan, and the events leading to the Emancipation Proclamation.
- Date of release
- 1974-01-20
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- History
- Director
- Ed Spiegel
Casting
- Cliff Robertson — Narrator(voice)
- John Anderson — President Lincoln
- Robert Prosky — Secretary of War Stanton
- Richard Sanders — Minister Adams
- Doug Roberts — Corporal Mitchell
- Max Wright — Horace Greeley
- Bryan Clark — General Kearney
- Norman Fitz — Frederick Douglass
- Mark Hammer — Senator Wade
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