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Looking for Lincoln

20092h MovieDocumentary

Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s quest to piece together Lincoln's complex life takes him from Illinois to Gettysburg to Washington, D.C. and face-to-face with people who live with Lincoln every day -- relic hunters, re-enactors and others for whom the study of Lincoln is a passion.

DirectorsMuriel Soenens·John Maggio

WriterHenry Louis Gates, Jr.

ProducerHenry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Cast · Directed by Muriel Soenens

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Self - Host

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