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The Civil War

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Plot

A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Cast

David McCullough as Narrator
David McCullough

as Narrator

Sam Waterston as Abraham Lincoln
Sam Waterston

as Abraham Lincoln

Julie Harris as Mary Chestnut
Julie Harris

as Mary Chestnut

Jason Robards as Ulysses S. Grant
Jason Robards

as Ulysses S. Grant

Morgan Freeman as Frederick Douglass
Morgan Freeman

as Frederick Douglass

Paul Roebling as Joshua Chamberlain
Paul Roebling

as Joshua Chamberlain

Garrison Keillor as Walt Whitman
Garrison Keillor

as Walt Whitman

George Black as Robert E. Lee
George Black

as Robert E. Lee

Arthur Miller as William Tecumseh Sherman
Arthur Miller

as William Tecumseh Sherman

Christopher Murney as Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Christopher Murney

as Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Network

Status

  • Ended

First Aired Date

  • September 23, 1990

Last Aired Date

  • September 27, 1990

Production Companies

  • Florentine Films

  • American Documentary Films Inc.

  • Kenneth Lauren Burns

  • WETA

  • Time-Life Video

Type

  • Miniseries

Number of Season

  • 1

Number of Episodes

  • 9

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Miniseries

1990|9 Episodes

Photographs, period paintings, lithographs and headlines of the Civil War are combined with moving newsreel footage of Civil War veterans, interviews with distinguished historians and first-person accounts in this award-winning documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns. The miniseries vividly embraces the entire sweep of the war: the complex causes and lasting effects of America's greatest and most moving calamity, the battles and the homefronts, the generals and the private soldiers, the anguish of death in battle and the grief of families at home.

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