| BUDAPEST TO GETTYSBURG, is a riveting tale of love, hate, war and freedom – a journey from terror to hope. The past and present collide as a world-renowned historian confronts a history he has refused to study: his own. |
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| February 16, 2009: New York Times Op-Ed by Gabor Boritt: Radio Free Lincoln. Three other contributors wrote op-eds about Lincoln including Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The New York Times |
| February 16, 2009: The Right to Rise: Gabor's work is featured heavily in David Von Drehle'sTime Magazine story about Abraham Lincoln and the economy. Time Magazine |
| Vanity Fair - February, 2009: "An Oral History of the Bush White House": I was featured in Vanity Fair's article about the last 8 years by Cullen Murphy and Todd Purdum. My photo is between Hans Blix and Michael Brown. Heckuva job Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair |
| February 12, 2009: Washington, DC: Gabor attends multiple events honoring the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial including the grand reopening of Ford's Theater with President and Mrs. Obama, George Lucas and Sidney Poitier; the rededication of the Lincoln Memorial, and the Bi-Cameral celebration of the Bicentennial in the Capitol Rotunda. Lincoln Bicentennial |
| February, 8 2009: Springfield, IL: Gabor recieves the Order of Lincoln award. |
| 759: Boy Scouts of Harlem: My latest doc is a funny upbeat film about an endearing Boy Scout Troop in Harlem I made with Justin Szlasa. We follow eleven year old Keith Dozier, 759's newest Scout, from the streets of Harlem to the woods of Camp Keowa. The film will premier at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in March and then screen on the U.S.S. Intrepid. www.harlemscouts.com |
| January/February 2009: The Gettysburg Experience: Along with my dad, my mom and their two dogs I was featured in the Jan. and Feb. editons of the The Gettysburg Experience magazine. I think I may be the first person to have their photo featured in Vanity Fair and The Gettysburg Experience in the same month. The Gettysburg Experience -Jan. '09 The Gettysburg Experience Feb. '09 |
Nov. 17, 2008: Washington, D.C.: The President of the United States awards a 2008 National Humanities Medal to Gabor S. Boritt, for a distinguished career of scholarship on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era. His life's work and his life's story stand as testaments to our nation's precious legacy of liberty. LINK |
Nov. 16, 2008: Boston, MA: Thank you to all who attended the New England Premiere in the Boston Jewish Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts on November 16. Pictures coming soon. LINK |
Nov. 4, 2008: Harlem, New York City: I along with Teri Johnson, Jamund Washington and 20 other filmmakers filmed Harlem from 5 am to 2 am on the day Barack Obama was elected as the first black president. LINK |
September 6, 2008: Gettysburg, PA: Along with my dad Gabor, my brother Dan and two historians: Matthew Pinsker and Richard Sommers I helped give a tour of the Gettysburg Battlefield to President and Mrs. Bush and abotu 20 of their friends and colleagues including: Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzalez, Harriet Miers, Karen Hughes and others. LINK |
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Gabor Boritt is an expert on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. Fifty years after fleeing a continent ravaged by the terror of Hitler and Stalin, Gabor reluctantly returns to his native Budapest. Urged by his son, he faces the harsh history of his Jewish-Hungarian childhood: the Nazi invasion, the Holocaust, Allied bombing raids, Soviet tyranny, the 1956 Revolution and his escape to America. From the streets of Budapest to the fields of Gettysburg, Gabor discovers the intimate and epic history that transformed him into a great scholar of Lincoln, the Civil War and American democracy. |
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