In one of the most acclaimed performances of his artistic career, Daniel Day-Lewis portrays President Abraham Lincoln in one of the most difficult political fights of his life. At the beginning of the year 1865–and with the American Civil War drawing to a close–Lincoln uses every political machination in his power to achieve the
Milk (My name is Harvey Milk in Spanish) is a film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black that tells the life of the politician Harvey Milk, a defender and activist of the civil rights of homosexuals. Milk was the first openly gay person to be elected to political office.