How Accurate Is The Movie Lincoln By Steven Spielberg

This is a famous quote by Abraham Lincoln that would be enforced on January 1, 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation was put into effect. However, the proclamation did not free all slaves. What happened after the Emancipation Proclamation? Slavery still existed in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. In a film directed by Steven Spielberg called, “Lincoln”, the movie tells the story of how Abraham Lincoln got the 13th Amendment passed which freed all slaves. How accurate is the movie Lincoln? Although the director, Steven Spielberg, has mixed fiction with fact to sustain the viewer's interest, the film Lincoln, provides a respectable amount of truth and facts of the actual events that occurred surrounding the ending of the Civil War

She is a graduate of Berry College in Floyd, Georgia, where she majored in history. She analyzes the film, “Lincoln” and chooses some key points that are accurately depicted in the film. It is mentioned how the overall plot of the film is highly accurate. There were some events that film could have mentioned to show more of how the amendment got passed. For example, the movie should have involved Frederick Douglas, as he played a big part in the emancipation process. Even though Douglas was not mentioned in the movie, the absence of his role does not shift the facts in the movie, it was merely focused in different areas. McKernie says, “It does accurately portray the events on a broad scale, and, more importantly, it offers an accurate overall view of the individuals

In the film, politicians wanted Lincoln to postpone the vote for the amendment until the war was over. Lincoln knew if he did so that there would be a high chance of the Emancipation Proclamation being overturned by the courts which would allow slavery to continue. He was lucky to succeed in his efforts to pass the amendment before his death a few weeks later.

Leidner, states that Daniel Day Lewis did a good job of portraying Lincoln’s voice. Without any recordings, it is hard to tell if this was what it really sounded like. However, articles in history tells us that Lincoln had a higher pitched tenor voice. Leidner says, “Even if Daniel Day-Lewis’s excellent characterization of these aspects of Lincoln are not perfect, they are certainly historically supportable.” (Quick fact check of Stephen Spielberg’s movie