Abraham Lincoln a young Springfield lawyer in 1837, handles a murder trial through which he is awaken about the horrors of slavery and the dangers of mob mentality, issues.

These Honored Dead is a feature film drama set in the American frontier. Young lawyer Abraham Lincoln takes on a gruesome murder case just after he arrives in Springfield, IL in 1837. Through the trial, he begins to awaken to the horrors of slavery and the dangers of mob mentality, issues which will challenge him his whole life and which still plague us today.