Abraham Lincoln (1930)

IMDb plot summary: An episodic biography of the 16th President of the United States.

Directed by D.W. Griffith. Starring Walter Huston, Una Merkel, and William L. Thorne.

Abraham Lincoln is a biopic of, well, the title character, focusing heavily on his early life, his relationship with Mary Todd, and his determination to preserve the country during the Civil War. The film was made by D.W. Griffith, and given his earlier extremely racist film The Birth of a Nation, I was not at all excited for a Lincoln biopic. While Griffith still definitely doesn't seem to be elevating Lincoln's anti-slavery decisions, focusing entirely on the unity factor (which, I'm sure, was primarily Lincoln's goal to begin with), he does laud the man as a hero, which I wasn't sure would be the case. That being said, the political pieces of this story are by far the least interesting, told in strange halting pieces. I'd much rather see a full film on Griffith's take on the Lincoln-Todd marriage, which may not be accurate but would at least be more entertaining. This isn't one I'd recommend overall, it's both boring and cinematically unspectacular.

How it entered my Flickchart:

Abraham Lincoln < Closer

Abraham Lincoln < 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Abraham Lincoln > Wyatt Earp

Abraham Lincoln < Roberta

Abraham Lincoln > Running With Scissors

Abraham Lincoln > VeggieTales: Sumo of the Opera

Abraham Lincoln > Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin

Abraham Lincoln > Atomic Blonde

Abraham Lincoln > The Fast and the Furious

Abraham Lincoln < Kinsey

Abraham Lincoln < Good Night, and Good Luck.

Abraham Lincoln < Freaky Friday (1976)

Final spot: #2984 out of 3663, or 19%.