THE FILM: If you’d like to sit back on a cold wintery day and tap into a little bit of history in a classic way you may want to check out the 1930 biographical film Abraham Lincoln (also released under the title D.W. Griffith’s Abraham Lincoln) since it was directed by D.W. Griffith. What’s nice about the film is that it not only covers Lincoln’s political years, but his early years as a storekeeper and rail-splitter as well as his time spent as a lawyer courting Mary Todd in Springfield. The story is told in a series of smaller vignettes depicted in scenes with each of about equal length. Also included is the famed Lincoln-Douglas debate although some reviewers of the film have commented that its accurateness seems a little suspect even though the first part of the film (pertaining to Lincoln’s early years) appears to be Read the rest of this entry »