It’s taken a long time to get a trailer for Spielberg’s Lincoln, but now it’s here, showing the director in full on soft-tint epic historical mode. It all looks very worthy and Oscar-bait, but we’ll have to wait and see if Spielberg can get over his tendency to get slightly boring when he goes back beyond the Second World War. The movie concentrates on the last years of Lincoln’s life, when with the Civil War raging, many believed the only way to end conflict and save the union was to rescind the Emancipation Proclamation (which freed slaves and was relatively flimsy legally, as it was a Presidential order that had never been backed by the Congress, Senate or courts). However Abraham pressed forward trying to find support for a Constitutional Amendment, which would ensure black people could not be enslaved in the US ever again.