El dilema de Lincoln

To open with people at the Capitol building who were contesting the results of the 2020 election in an Abraham Lincoln documentary is out of context. It had nothing to do with Lincoln, and was inappropriate in my opinion. I'm glad I kept watching however as I did see photos and quotes I hadn't heard about Lincoln before. My rating would've been much higher if the opening scene wasn't so out of place.

Very telling that those who have written bad reviews of this brilliant production apparently feel threatened by the actual TRUTH about the civil war and that most of the contributors/narrators of Lincoln's Dilemma are Black. Seriously???? Damn those "uppity" realists and their perception of history. And.....just an aside-we ALL watched the footage of January 6. Unless you are delusional and/or a Trumpian nutcase we all know what really transpired that day please try to do not embarrass yourselves any longer. 😳😳😳

Many interesting facts about Lincoln and the war but underlying agenda was shown in the opening January 6 protests. The protests had nothing to do with Lincoln and degraded the content.

This documentary doesn't add much to what generally is known. Though is several hours long it seems to omit the economic impact slavery had. If slavery had a value it must have been money and power. Would it be far fetched to deduce there is econimical reason why Lincoln wanted to free the slaves? Could it be this changed the power dynamic in favor of the North between the south and the north?

Lest also not forget that this Unified America is built on the economical gains it made from it's slavery. Bitter as this might be.

I am against slavery, racism and any abuse of humans, but also a realist. Even as I write this I realise that I am the child of the generation that came before me. And with child I mean the resulting product of the conduct of my forefathers.

A weighted insight into the human, economic and impact on the future, would have made this valuable and important documentary, alas it is not.

This four part documenatry about Lincoln and his military and political objectives to keep the Union together and ultimately emancipate the slaves and pass the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution is immensely entertaining and enlightening. It is also well crafted, using various photogrpahic techniques combined with narratives provided by historians with varied backgrounds. Lincoln had to weave his way through a complex set of problems, dealing with military setbacks, political pressures from abolitionists, Southern sympathizers, and citizens cool to the idea of emancipating the slaves at the expense of prolonging the Civil War. Lincoln kept an open mind, listened to intellectuals like Frederick Douglas, and finally found a general who could win battles, and provide the political capital to achieve emancipation, renunite the country, start on a path to reconstruction, and pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The series also covers two other facets of the aftermath of the Civil War: the backlash against reconstruction, and rebuilding the image of the Southern insurrectionists and basically trying to rewrite the history of that period, including the building of monuments all over the South to glorify the leaders of the insurrection. This is a series that all American's should watch to get a better understanding of how the history of that era still affects us today.