THE CONSPIRATOR (2011)

Cast

Plot

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the attack. Newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son. A worthy and beautifully shot drama from Robert Redford.