Back to browse
56% Critic Match
Wilson
“DRAMA AND SPECTACLE UNPARALLELED! ENTERTAINMENT UNDREAMED OF! 12,000 PLAYERS! 200 MIGHTY SCENES! TOLD TO THE TUNE OF 87 BELOVED SONGS!”
5.6 / 10• 1944• 2h 34m•NR• English
Drama
Storyline
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.
Cast & Crew
Alexander Knox
Woodrow Wilson
Lead
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Edith Bolling Galt
Thomas Mitchell
Joseph Tumulty
Ruth Nelson
Ellen Wilson
Cedric Hardwicke
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
Charles Coburn
Professor Henry Holmes
Vincent Price
William Gibbs McAdoo
William Eythe
George Felton
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Henry King's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Wilson is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
