The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (2009)

Just days after the Civil War ended President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Fords Theatre As a fractured nation mourned a manhunt closed in on his assassin the twentysixyearold actor John Wilkes Booth The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys in the forms of Lincolns funeral train route and Booths desperate efforts to escape