Death by Lightning (2025)
The story of James Garfield, who rose from obscurity to become America's 20th President — and Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated him.
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Seasons
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Limited Series4 episodes
Cast and crew
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Michael Shannon
James Garfield
4 episodes
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Matthew Macfadyen
Charles Guiteau
4 episodes
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Nick Offerman
Chester A. Arthur
4 episodes
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Shea Whigham
Roscoe Conkling
4 episodes
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Bradley Whitford
James Blaine
4 episodes
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Betty Gilpin
Crete Garfield
4 episodes
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Alfie Tempest
Irvin Garfield
4 episodes
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Anders Grundberg
Abram Garfield
4 episodes
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Dylan Hughes
Jim Garfield Jr.
4 episodes
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Jack Alldridge
Harry Garfield
4 episodes
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Andrew Hefler
Tom Platt
4 episodes
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David Nykl
Levi Morton
4 episodes
- Full cast
- Directing
- Matt Ross
- Writing
- Candice Millard (Book), Mike Makowsky (Writing)
- Music
- Ramin Djawadi
- Cinematography
- Adriano Goldman
- Editing
- Joe Leonard, Anna Hauger, Joseph Krings and 1 more
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Details
- Status
- Ended
- First air date
- Nov. 6, 2025
- Episode runtime
- 53 minutes
- Original language
- English
- Production countries
- United States of America
- Networks
- Netflix
