1865年，持续四年的美国内战进入了尾声，亚伯拉罕·林肯总统（丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯 Daniel Day-Lewis 饰）也迎来了他的第二个任期。在生命和任期的最后四个月，林肯一直在致力于一场比内战还艰苦的战役：推动宪法第13修正案在国会的通过。该法案将从法理上永久废除奴隶制在美国的存在。然而修正案提出的时机异常糟糕：废奴思想缺少人民的响应；国会为保守势力把持；支持废奴的激进派也不满林肯的作风。当分裂出去的南部州表达了重回谈判桌和终结内战的意愿后，林肯发现他面临一个两难的痛苦决定：是获得妥协的和平，还是坚守内心的道德？是结束奴隶制，还是结束战争？...
A dramatization of the romance and marriage of the McGuires, the 2007 murder of Bill, investigation and subsequent trial of Melanie, who dismembered and disposed of her husband's body in suitcases....
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why....
