Living With Lincoln

One family's journey to preserve a president's image

7.4

|2015|60 min

Filmmaker Peter Kunhardt examines how a one-of-a-kind collection of Abraham Lincoln photos and memorabilia have profoundly shaped the lives and sensibilities of five generations of his family.

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