History Classics: Lincoln And The Civil War

The Hunt For John Wilkes Booth (2007)

Category: Documentary | Director: Tom Jennings | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

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Met with outrage instead of support after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, John Wilkes Booth fled across the Maryland countryside. With co-conspirator David Herold at his side, Booth ... more

The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln (2009)

Category: Documentary | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

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As the Civil War drew to a close, noted actor John Wilkes Booth and a group of Confederate sympathizers hatched a scheme to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln that ultimately became an assassination plot. ... more

Looking For Lincoln (2009)

Category: Documentary | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

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Modern-day historians look back at the life and politics of Abraham Lincoln in this fascinating PBS documentary drawn from the acclaimed book by Lincoln scholars Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, ... more

Stealing Lincoln's Body (2009)

Category: Documentary | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

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In 1876--11 years after Abraham Lincoln's body was laid to rest in a Springfield, Illinois, cemetery--a counterfeiting mob in Chicago hatched a brazen scheme to break into the unguarded tomb, steal the ... more

Abraham Lincoln: Trial By Fire

Category: Documentary | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: No

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This three-disc tribute to the man who gave his life to reunite America opens with "Lincoln: Trial by Fire" (1974), a documentary look at the battle of wills between the president and Union general George ... more

The Lincoln Chronicles

Category: Documentary | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

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Ten-disc set includes the documentaries "America: The Birth of Freedom," "Civil War: America Divided," and "Abraham Lincoln: Trial by Fire," plus the TV miniseries "Sandberg's Lincoln."

George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King (1992)

Category: Documentary | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

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As a young Virginia planter and military officer, he was obsessed with material success and social acceptance. Amid the fight for American independence, he rose to the challenge to become an iconic leader ... more

The Real George Washington (2008)

Category: Documentary | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

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How much do you know about "the father of his country"? This documentary from National Geographic endeavors to separate fact from fiction in its examination of the life and career of George Washington, ... more

The LBJ Tapes

Category: Documentary | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: No

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Take a rare look behind White House doors with this collection of newsreel footage and photos that complement unearthed audiotapes made of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Oval Office conversations. See ... more