Lincoln: Trial by Fire

Cliff Robertson narrates this dramatization focuses on the little-known life-and-death struggle of power between President Lincoln and his general in command of the Army of the Potomac, George McClellan, and the events leading to the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Ed SpiegelDirector
• Theodore StraussWriter

• Cliff RobertsonNarrator(voice)
• John AndersonPresident Lincoln
• Robert ProskySecretary of War Stanton
• Richard SandersMinister Adams
• Doug RobertsCorporal Mitchell
• Max WrightHorace Greeley
• Bryan ClarkGeneral Kearney
• Norman FitzFrederick Douglass
• Mark HammerSenator Wade