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.
Director: Ed Spiegel
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Cliff Robertson as Narrator(voice) |
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John Anderson as President Lincoln |
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Robert Prosky as Secretary of War Stanton |
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Richard Sanders as Minister Adams |
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Doug Roberts as Corporal Mitchell |
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Max Wright as Horace Greeley |
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Bryan Clark as General Kearney |
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Norman Fitz as Frederick Douglass |
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Mark Hammer as Senator Wade |
| Directing | Ed Spiegel | Director |
| Writing | Theodore Strauss | Writer |