Lincoln (2012)
As the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.
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The dismembered leg in a glass case briefly seen in the first half of the movie bears a plaque indicating that it is the leg of Major General Daniel Sickles. Sickles lost his leg when he was hit by a cannonball at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, and subsequently donated it to the Army Medical Museum. The leg bones remain on display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Private Harold Green:
Some of us was in the Second Kansas Colored. We fought the Rebs at Jenkins' Ferry last April just after they killed every Negro soldier they captured at Poison Springs. So at Jenkins' Ferry, we decided warn't takin' no Reb prisoners. And we didn't ...
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Abraham Lincoln's secretary, John Nicolay, was Bavarian by birth, but immigrated with his parents to the United States at age 6, grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and did not speak with a German accent. (Despite this, in the 1992 documentary Lincoln (1992), his letters were read by future California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with his usual trademark Germanic accent.)
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For international releases, an additional prologue about the Civil War was added prior to the start of the film. It mostly shows archive photos with the prologue text included in it. This was decided by the studio's marketing department in its research which realized that while many non-American audiences know of the titular character, most of them are not familiar with the war itself.
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Genres
Biography | Drama | History | WarDetails
Release Date:
16 November 2012Language
English
Country of Origin
USA, IndiaFilming Locations
State Farm, Powhatan, Virginia, USABox Office
Budget:
$65,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend USA:
$944,308 11 November 2012
Gross USA:
$182,207,973
Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$275,293,450
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