A Long-Lost Silent Film About Abraham Lincoln Was Just Rediscovered After More Than 100 Years

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A Long-Lost Silent Film About Abraham Lincoln Was Just Rediscovered After More Than 100 Years

By Kaleena Fraga | Edited By John Kuroski
Published February 6, 2025
Updated February 7, 2025

A 1915 film about Abraham Lincoln and life in America during the Civil War, The Heart Of Lincoln had been declared lost by the Library of Congress before it was recently rediscovered in New York.

The 1915 silent film The Heart of Lincoln has long been listed by the Library of Congress as one of the 7,000 pre-sound movies that’s been lost to history. But thanks to a sharp-eyed intern at the Historic Films Archive in Greenport, New York, this “lost” film has been found — and it’s in surprisingly good condition.

After the film was discovered in a box of decades-old donations, the Historic Films Archive was able to clean off the reels and digitize the footage. Now, The Heart of Lincoln can be preserved and seen for generations to come.

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“Maybe in the next year we’ll have it done,” Lauro told All That’s Interesting, “and have it properly released for the next Lincoln birthday [in] 2026.”

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