WWI: The Last Tommies

A documentary about the newsreel footage that cameraman Geoffrey Malins shot of the first few days' fighting of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, during the First World War. He was allowed extensive access to the trenches at the front line, as what would nowadays be termed an "embedded journalist". His footage, edited into a feature-length film, were shown as a propaganda film and seen by an estimate 20 million people back home - half the British population at the time.

Mbah Sri is over ninety years old and has decided to travel in search of her husband, who never returned after going to war in the 1940s. Her only wish is to be buried next to her husband.

"Mary, I was losing interest in politics, but this has aroused me again!" Expansion of slavery is the explosive issue that draws Springfield lawyer Abraham Lincoln back into the political scene. Our founding fathers, he claims, sought to contain slavery so it would die out. But now, in the 1850s, it appears that slavery may overrun the entire country. "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel." After his debates with Stephen Douglas make Abraham Lincoln's name nationally known, he is sent to Washington D.C. as the sixteenth President of the United States . . . whose unity is already unraveling with secession. Finally Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation and urges passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Liberty has come, but at what price? Lincoln and Emancipation features Chris Small in a dramatic narrative which explores Lincoln's own words regarding slavery and freedom.