Abraham Lincoln (1930)




Walter Huston - Abraham Lincoln

Walter Huston, Una Merkel - Abraham Lincoln




Biographical film about Abraham Lincoln. One of only two sound films made by D.W. Griffith.


Vintage magazines

Photoplay , October 1930
Photoplay , December 1930

Books with substantial mentioning of Abraham Lincoln

Melvyn Stokes
American History through Hollywood Film, From the Revolution to the 1960s
London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney, 2013

Harry Medved
The Fifty Worst movies of All Time, (and how they got that way)
London, 1987

Books with an entry on Abraham Lincoln

Jay Robert Nash, Stanley Ralph Ross
The Motion Picture Guide, Volume I A-B 1927-1983
Chicago, 1985

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Articles on Abraham Lincoln

Tom Gunning, Mr. Lincoln by Mr. Ford and Mr. Griffith, Image and History in American Cinema, in: Jeff Menne and Christian B. Long (eds.), Film and the American presidency, New York; London, 2015

Arthur Lennig, "There is a tragedy going on here which I will tell you later": D.W. Griffith and Abraham Lincoln, in: Film History, vol. 22, 2010 pp. 41-72