Keep November 6 in your calendars free because that's the day Netflix will drop a new four-part series about one of the intriguing US presidents.

Death By Lightning , a limited series starring Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen, promises to bring to life the stranger-than-fiction but true story of the 20th President of the United States, James Garfield, who only served for six months before he died after being shot by his long-time admirer, Charles Guiteau.

Oscar nominee Michael will star as Garfield, a nine-term Congressman from Ohio, who was also a preacher and a lawyer.

He only became President after Republicans were unable to come to an agreement during the 1880 convention over whether John Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant and James G. Blaine should be nominated; Garfield won the no

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