The Martyred Presidents

1901 · Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter · 1 min · silent film

★ 3.2/10 · 13 ratings on TMDB

This film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone. Shortly afterwards, the face of Abraham Lincoln and then of two other presidents, Garfield and McKinley, can be seen on the monument and then they disappear. There is a figure huddled at the foot of a statue of Justice, as if asking forgiveness.