Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many Americans may not be familiar with James Garfield’s brief presidency, let alone his brutal assassination. But Netflix aims to ...

Death by Lightning, a new four-part miniseries on Netflix, is a period piece that plays like a 19th-century version of The West Wing. It's full of political intrigue and unexpected betrayals — ...

Mike Makowsky opens Death by Lightning, a four-part miniseries he wrote and produced, with a chilling line: "This is a true story about two men the world forgot. One was the 20th president of the ...

When President James A. Garfield was shot at a Washington, D.C., train station in July 1881 — just four months into his presidency — no one could have predicted that his death would take months to ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Netflix‘s new limited series Death By Lightning tells the strange story of one of our lesser known presidents, James A. Garfield (Michael Shannon). Garfield stunned the ...

WILLOUGHBY, Ohio — Mike Makowsky had spent months working on obtaining permission from the government to see the real thing, so perhaps it’s not all that surprising that the new Netflix limited series ...

History has a way of forgetting, or at least overlooking. Everyone knows John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Far fewer are familiar with the story of Charles Guiteau, the man who, ...

Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen star in Netflix’s political thriller Death by Lightning. Michael Shannon’s Garfield embodies reluctant heroism — a man both elevated and destroyed by the weight ...

This article contains some spoilers for the Netflix miniseries "Death by Lightning." If politics today make your head spin, wait until you see Netflix’s “Death by Lightning.” The four-part miniseries, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If tabloids and social media existed back in the Gilded Age the way they do now, it’s hard to wonder what ...

Mike Makowsky had spent months working on obtaining permission from the government to see the real thing, so perhaps it’s not all that surprising that the new Netflix limited series he’s created, ...