Lincoln Comes to Life

Rating: 10/10 (27 November 2012)

Painstakingly, historically accurate portrayal of the last months of Lincoln's life. This film is a wonderful history lesson for anyone over the age of 12. Even if you have studied Lincoln and read about him and his age, you will get to know him in a way that reading alone can't provide.
Lincoln is shown as more than just a homespun country lawyer, but a passionate man of beliefs and an accomplished politician. He knows that in order to pass an amendment banning slavery, he is going to have to grease more than a few palms, and he does so. Daniel Day Lewis's portrayal if the definitive one of all the actors who have played Lincoln. Lincoln knew by the end of the war that slavery must be abolished once and for all permanently. The House followed the Senate in passing the 13th amendment, but it was a close thing and could have gone the other way without the right leadership.
The sets, the actors, the attention to the smallest details of the period make this movie a treasure.