"I want the amendment to pass, so that the Constitution's first and only mention of slavery is its absolute prohibition. For this amendment, for which I have worked all my life and for which countless colored men and women have fought and died and now hundreds of thousands of soldiers... No, sir, no, it seems there's very nearly nothing I won't say."

"The greatest measure of the 19th century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America."

"[to Abraham Lincoln] No one's loved as much as you, no one's ever been loved so much, by the people. You might do anything now. Don't, don't waste that power on an amendment bill that's sure of defeat."

"[to Abraham Lincoln] You think I'm ignorant of what you're up to because you haven't discussed this scheme with me as you ought to have done? When have I ever been so easily bamboozled? I believe you when you insist that amending the Constitution and abolishing slavery will end this war. And since you're sending my son into the war, woe to you if you fail to pass the amendment."

"But all that was not enough for this dictator, who now seeks to insinuate his miscegenist pollution into the Constitution itself!"

"We are once again asked - nay, commanded - to consider a proposed thirteenth amendment which, if passed, shall set at immediate liberty four million coloreds while manacling the limbs of the white race in America. If it is passed - but it shall not pass!"

"Every member of the House loyal to the Democratic Party and the constituents it serves shall oppose!"

"Daniel Day-Lewis - President Abraham Lincoln"

"Sally Field - First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln"

"David Strathairn - Secretary of State William H. Seward"

"Tommy Lee Jones - Radical Republican Congressional leader Thaddeus Stevens"

"Hal Holbrook - Francis Preston Blair"

"Lee Pace - Democratic Congressman Fernando Wood"

"Peter McRobbie - Democratic Congressman George H. Pendleton"

"Bruce McGill - Secretary of War Edwin Stanton"

"Dakin Matthews- Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher"

"Jared Harris - Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant"

"James Spader - Republican Party operative William N. Bilbo"

"Tim Blake Nelson - lobbyist Richard Schell"

"John Hawkes - Republican operative Colonel Robert Latham"

"Bill Raymond - Schuyler Colfax"

"David Costabile - Republican Congressman James Ashley"

"Stephen Spinella - Radical Republican Congressman Asa Vintner Litton"

"Michael Stuhlbarg - Kentucky Democratic Congressman George Yeaman"

"Boris McGiver - Democratic Congressman, later Republican, Alexander Coffroth"

"Walton Goggins - Democratic Congressman Wells A. Hutchins"

"David Warshofsky - Democratic Congressmann William Hutton"

"Wayne Duvall - Radical Republican Senator Benjamin "Bluff Ben" Wade"

"Jackie Earle Haley - Confederate States Vice President Alexander H. Stephens"

"S. Epatha Merkerson - Lydia Smith"

"Gloria Reuben - Elizabeth Keckley"

"Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Robert Todd Lincoln"

"Gulliver McGrath - Tad Lincoln"

"Joseph Cross - John Hay"

"Stephen Henderson - Lincoln's valet William Slade"

"Kevin Costner - Lt. John J. Dunbar/Dances With Wolves"

"Percy White Plume - Big Warrior"

"Robert Pastorelli - Timmons"

"Charles Rocket - Lt. Elgin"

"Michael Spears - Otter"

"Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse - Smiles A Lot"

"Jimmy Herman - Stone Calf"

"Tantoo Cardinal - Black Shawl"

"Floyd Red Crow Westerman - Chief Ten Bears"

"Rodney A. Grant - Wind In His Hair"

"Graham Greene - Kicking Bird"

"Mary McDonnell - Stands With A Fist"

"Five hundred years later, Native peoples are still fighting to protect their lands and their rights to exist as distinct political communities and individuals. Most US citizens' knowledge about Indians is inaccurate, distorted, or limited to elementary-school textbooks, cheesy old spaghetti westerns, or more contemporary films like Dances with Wolves or The Last of the Mohicans."

"Lt. John Dunbar is about to discover the frontier...within himself."

"The journey begins this November. Discover it for yourself."