A Good Man

Documentary following acclaimed stage director/choreographer Bill T. Jones as he creates his most ambitious work, an original dance-theatre piece in honour of Abraham Lincoln's Bicentennial.

Through two tumultuous years, Jones struggles to communicate his vision to his dancers and collaborators. They come face to face with America's unresolved contradictions about race, equality and the legacy of the 16th President. Initially an indictment of The Great Emancipator, the work evolves into "a triumph of hope for our struggling democracy". Says Jones: "[Lincoln was] the only white man I was allowed to love unconditionally."

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