Parents Guide for
Lincoln (2012) More at IMDbPro »

There is no suggestive nudity and no sex.

Women are shown wearing low-cut dresses that reveal cleavage.

In one scene, Mary is undressing for bed, showing her undergarments (which are modest compared to today's). Her bare shoulder and upper chest are shown.

An unmarried man and woman lie side by side in bed under the covers, fully clothed in long nightgowns. They briefly kiss.

The film opens on a battle scene; people are stabbed with bayonets, beaten and pushed deep into the mud to drown. The sequence isn't bloody, but it vividly conveys the horrors of war. Toward the end of the war, Lincoln visits a battlefield strewn with bloody corpses. One mangled body has its torso splayed open, devoid of organs. We see a city burning.

When Lincoln visits wounded war vets, his son Robert follows orderlies pushing a cart that's dribbling blood along the way. The conveyance stops at a huge pit filled with human limbs, and the orderlies unveil the cart's contents - newly amputated legs and arms. They dump the contents in the pit as people begin to fill in the hole with dirt.

When Robert and his father get into an argument, Lincoln slaps him across the face.

Lincoln is shown on his deathbed, a bloodstained pillow beneath his head.

Two f-words. Four or five s-words. Derogatory terms for African-Americans several times, including the n-word. Also heard are: "b--ch", "bloody", "G--d--n" 13 times. Jesus' name is misused once.

There is a civil war era insult, "pettifogging", which, when used in the film, may sound like another F-word is used.

Several characters are shown drinking (wine, beer and other presumably alcoholic beverages) and smoking (mostly cigars). Preston Blair's wife instructs a servant to get him drunk during a long journey so he'll be able to sleep. Lobbyists seem inebriated in a scene or two.

A scene where Abraham Lincoln and Robert Todd Lincoln visit a few wounded soldiers could be upsetting. They all have had their legs amputated, and the stumps are well-bandaged. Another scene shows their legs being dumped into what could be described as a mass grave of amputated limbs.

Although Lincoln's assassination is not shown, it is announced with his younger son, Tad, present, who then screams hysterically from grief.

There is fighting between Lincoln and his wife near the end of the film. A lot of shouting at each other over their son Robbie's enlistment into the Union army.

The main theme of this film is slavery and racism. Some people will likely be offended by the more racist characters, including one character who mentions women's rights, to great protest from the crowd, but of course slavery is defeated in the end and the heroes are all against it.