Abraham Lincoln On Screen By Professor Melvyn Stokes by The British Academy published on 2016-07-05T10:51:19Z Dramatising democracy: Abraham Lincoln on screen How much artistic license can filmmakers take with ‘real’ characters? How do their decisions impact our perspectives? Film historian, Melvyn Stokes, explores these questions and more in a special introduction to a screening of Spielberg's Lincoln (2012). Speaker: Professor Melvyn Stokes, Professor of Film History, UCL Genre Learning