I saw Lincoln ( 2012) yesterday and it is one of the finest movies ever made about the person in American History I admire this most. It was long overdue that a new movie be make on Abraham Lincoln the greatest of American Presidents. Thank you Steven Spielberg! Your are continuing the work of Director John Ford in bringing history to the cinema in a real and meaningful way. I won't give my review of Lincoln other than I will get it on Blu-ray. Ir brought to life a portion of the life of Abraham Lincoln and should get Best Picture, Best Director for Spielberg, Best Actor for Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln, Best Actress for Sally Field, as Mary Lincoln, Best Supporting Actor, for David Strathairn as William Seward, and Best Cinematography for Janusz Kaminski, plus Academy Awards for others who contributed to this masterpiece.
This film joins a body of work of Spielberg that taken as a whole covers the sweep of history. Such films as:
Empire of the Sun (1978) World War II in Asia
Schindler's List (1993) World War II
Armistad (1997) 1839 America and Slavery
Saving Private Ryan (1998) D-Day and World War II
Band of Brother (2001) World War II in Europe. Producer
Into the West (2005) The American West
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) World War II in the Pacific. Producer
The Pacific (2010) World War II. Producer
War Horse (2011) World War I
Lincoln (2012) American Civil War & ending slavery
Director John Ford did the same thing a generation before with such films as:
The Iron Horse (1924) Building the transcontinental rail road
Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) post Lincoln assassination
Mary of Scotland (1936)
Stagecoach (1939) the American West
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) American Revolutionary War
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) The American Depression
How Green Was My Valley (1941) turn of the twentieth century in the South Wales coalfield
World War II Documentaries ( December 7th , Battle of Midway, & Torpedo Squadron"
They Were Expendable (1942) American PT Boats in the defense of the Philippines in World War II
My Darling Clementine (1946) The gunfight at the OK Corral
Fort Apache (1948) The U.S. Cavalry in the American West
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) the U.S. Cavalry in the American West
Rio Grande (1949) the last of the U.S. Cavalry Trilogy.
The Quiet Man (1952) Ireland
The Long Gray Line (1955) West Point
The Searchers (1956) The American West
The Last Hurrah (1958) Boston Politics
The Horse Soldiers (1959) the American Civil War
Sergeant Rutledge (1960) Race relations in the American West post Civil War
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) the ending of the American West
How the West Was Won (1962) the battle of Shiloh during the American Civil War
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) The treatment of American Indians in the West.
