emma hayward, al jazeera, in stratford upon avon. >>> from shakespeare to the crisis in ukraine, you can get all of the latest on the stories following here if you head to our website aljazeera.com. >> ithis is the declaration of independence 2.0. >> the gettysburg address, the america's most important speech, the words of abraham lincoln is the latest of burns work. >> the flawed hypocrisy of thompson jefferson's original declarations.

emma hayward, al jazeera, in stratford upon avon. >>> from shakespeare to the crisis in ukraine, you can get all of the latest on the stories following here if you head to our website aljazeera.com. >> ithis is the declaration of independence 2.0. >> the gettysburg address, the america's most important speech, the words of abraham lincoln is the latest of burns work. >> the flawed hypocrisy of thompson jefferson's original declarations. >> one doubling down to one of the families, the rooz veez roo roosevelts. >> ken, why have you decided to deal with a very important part of that era? >> people ask me how do i choose my projects and this one chose me. i live in a tiny town in rural new hampshire, putney, vermont, greenwood school, they asked me to be a judge at this gettysburg recitation event. i literally wept. i thought, somebody should make a film on this but that would be cinema verite. finally, with the 150th approaching, i just said, we got to do this, i got to put my money where my mouth is. we had to make a film about this heroic struggle of these boys. we had a larger progr

emma hayward, al jazeera, in stratford upon avon. >> you probably already figured it out. we have the answer. of course, it was shakespeare. he may not have invented those phrases but his writing cemented their use and so many more in the english language. finally, another shakespearean legacy, this one soaring in displays over the skies of north america. our randall pinkston has that story >> reporter: this is where part of the story began. new york central park in 1890 when a german immigrant released 60 starlings, the first in north america as a tribute to william spakz spear. the other part of the story began more than 300 years earlier in england where he placed references to birds, including the starling in his plays. he loved birds, i think part-time because they are musical and when you think about birds' songs, it connects you to the human voice >> michael is director of the spakz spear library in washington, d.c. he said shakespeare was a keen observer of nature. he especially liked the starlings' ability to mimic speech. the bard mentioned the starling in "henry