The Civil War

The Civil War

Release date : September 23, 1990
Countries of origin :
Original Language : English / German /
Creators :
Production companies : Florentine Films / American Documentary Films Inc. / Kenneth Lauren Burns / WETA / Time-Life Video /
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A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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The Civil War
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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David McCullough
Narrator
9 Episodes
Sam Waterston
Abraham Lincoln
9 Episodes
Julie Harris
Mary Chestnut
9 Episodes
Jason Robards
Ulysses S. Grant
9 Episodes
Morgan Freeman
Frederick Douglass
9 Episodes
Paul Roebling
Joshua Chamberlain
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Garrison Keillor
Walt Whitman
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George Black
Robert E. Lee
9 Episodes
Arthur Miller
William Tecumseh Sherman
9 Episodes
Christopher Murney
Elisha Hunt Rhodes
9 Episodes
Charles McDowell
Samuel R. Watkins
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Horton Foote
Jefferson Davis
9 Episodes
George Plimpton
George Templeton Strong
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Philip Bosco
Horace Greeley
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Terry Courier
George B. McClellan
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Jody Powell
Stonewall Jackson / Various
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Studs Terkel
Benjamin Butler / Various
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Hoyt Axton
Various
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  • title:The Civil War
  • status:Ended
  • Release date: 1990
  • Genres: Documentary · War & Politics · Drama ·
  • Countries of origin:
  • Original Language: English · German ·
  • Creators:
  • Production companies: Florentine Films · American Documentary Films Inc. · Kenneth Lauren Burns · WETA · Time-Life Video ·
  • Overview:A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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