Oscar season: When Pulitzer Prize winners fight with Congressmen over movies. On Tuesday, Congressman Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) blasted Steven Spielbe...

For almost exactly a hundred years, Hollywood has been complicit -- no, salient -- in promoting pro-Confederate falsehoods about the Civil War and Reconstruction. Now Spielberg and Kushner and everyone involved in Lincoln have at last declared, "Enough!"

In extended video clips from this weekend's Moyers & Company, Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter behind Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, talks about his approach to writing the movie and how it affected his own view of democracy.

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln opens in wide release today, after a limited release last Friday -- and with luck, Barack Obama will not only see it but take it as a template for the current lame-duck session of Congress and for his impending second term.

Lincoln's major achievement is the creation of the grand world in which Lincoln exists in balance with the quiet, tender internal struggle he endured. The films confronts issues of freedom we debate to this day.

Don't know much about history -- but you don't have to in order to be captivated by Steven Spielberg's Lincoln.

According to historians, Abraham Lincoln's voice was not the deep baritone many imagine; it was actually often described as high-pitched. "Lincoln...