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Lincoln

2012Movie2 h 30 minPG-139 awards

DramaHistory
79
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IMDb7.3Letterboxd3.6/5Metacritic877.4
79
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb7.3Letterboxd3.6/5Metacritic877.4

Summary

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office.

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  • Teaches you something.
  • Pulls you in.
  • Draws you into power games.
  • Makes you care deeply.
  • Lifts you up.

Not for laughs, scares or comfort.

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Artistic License – Historyin 3,078 titlesAs Spielberg put it on the 149th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address: "It's not the job, and in fact it's a betrayal of the job, of a historian to promise perfect and complete recall of the past, t…Slippery Slope FallacyRare · in 25 titlesOne of the most effective arguments used by Pendleton, Wood, and the other Democratic Representatives in convincing fence-sitting Representatives to vote against the 13th Amendment is that abolition…All 148 tropes

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