Michael Shannon also talks about his longtime friendship with actor Shea Whigham, who's also in the Netflix limited series.

Actors Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen chat with USA TODAY about their roles in the new historical drama "Death by ...

Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen brilliantly play out the fate of a forgotten president in the post-civil war era, but ...

In 1881, a man named Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield twice at point-blank range. The attack, which took ...

Matthew Macfadyen is no stranger to playing a Midwestern sycophant willing to kiss any powerful a-- to get ahead. Whereas Tom ...

Netflix’s Death by Lightning dramatizes the life and assassination of President James A. Garfield, starring Michael Shannon ...

Michael Shannon is US President James A. Garfield in four-part limited series Death By Lightning — streaming now on Netflix.

Netflix ‘s new drama Death By Lightning tells the wild story of how President James A. Garfield ( Michael Shannon) was killed ...

“It was extremely hot that day, and it felt very stark and quite lonely,” Macfadyen recalled of filming Guiteau’s execution ...

Netflix's 'Death by Lightning' stars Michael Shannon as U.S. President James Garfield and Matthew Macfadyen as his assassin, ...

Like Death by Lightning says in its final episode, Garfield ultimately died of infection and not from his bullet wound. 79 days passed between the shooting and his death, during which doctors probed ...

The Netflix limited series is both a timely exploration of political disillusionment and a frequently amusing character drama ...