History

Lincoln: Trial by Fire

Name: Lincoln: Trial by Fire
Director: Ed Spiegel
Genre: History
Released: 1974-01-20
Duration: 50 min
Cast: Cliff Robertson, John Anderson, Robert Prosky, Richard Sanders, Doug Roberts

January 20, 1974

50m

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.