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Suckley (Laura Linney), at a time when the
King and Queen of England are visiting his
Hudson Valley estate.
Lincoln (2012):
president, in the sprawling biopic that
chronicled his life from the college days to
his turbulent years as President and in the
2004 re-election campaign.
Vantage Point (2008):
Daniel Day-Lewis deservedly won the
Oscar for his sympathetic portrayal of
America’s most revered and reviled
President, whose anti-slavery stance
led the country to civil war. Directed by
Steven Spielberg, the film captured him
not as a self-righteous hero, but as a man
In Pete Travis’s film, William Hurt played forced to fight every inch of the way for
President Harry Ashton, who becomes the his principles, and deeply affected by
target of an assassination attempt, which is the massacre of his countrymen on the
examined from different perspectives and battlefield.
points of view of several characters.
10 Hyde Park On Hudson (2012):
Bill Murray played Franklin D Roosevelt
in Roger Michell’s film that portrays him
as a romantically vulnerable man, who
has an affair with a distant cousin, Daisy
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