Steven Spielberg's Lincoln movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president and the new trailer makes the case that ending slavery was the president's main motivation for fighting the Civil War. Lincoln is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's book A Team of Rivals and features a screenplay by Tony Kushner, alongside performances by Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Hal Holbrook. The movie arrives in theaters in limited release on November 9th and everywhere on November 16th.
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![](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-04/1time%20red%20o%27neill%20platoon%201200.jpg?itok=w-2J41Bh "John C. McGinley as Sgt. O'Neill in Oliver Stone's "Platoon." (Orion Pictures)")