David McCullough
Narrator
Total episodes: 9
The Civil War
Overview
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.81%
Cast
Sam Waterston
Abraham Lincoln
Total episodes: 9
Julie Harris
Mary Chestnut
Total episodes: 9
Jason Robards
Ulysses S. Grant
Total episodes: 9
Morgan Freeman
Frederick Douglass
Total episodes: 9
Paul Roebling
Joshua Chamberlain
Total episodes: 9
Garrison Keillor
Walt Whitman
Total episodes: 9
George Black
Robert E. Lee
Total episodes: 9
Arthur Miller
William Tecumseh Sherman
Total episodes: 9
Christopher Murney
Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Total episodes: 9
Charles McDowell
Samuel R. Watkins
Total episodes: 9
Horton Foote
Jefferson Davis
Total episodes: 9
David McCullough
Narrator
Total episodes: 9
Sam Waterston
Abraham Lincoln
Total episodes: 9
Julie Harris
Mary Chestnut
Total episodes: 9
Jason Robards
Ulysses S. Grant
Total episodes: 9
Morgan Freeman
Frederick Douglass
Total episodes: 9
Paul Roebling
Joshua Chamberlain
Total episodes: 9
Garrison Keillor
Walt Whitman
Total episodes: 9
George Black
Robert E. Lee
Total episodes: 9
Arthur Miller
William Tecumseh Sherman
Total episodes: 9
Christopher Murney
Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Total episodes: 9
Charles McDowell
Samuel R. Watkins
Total episodes: 9
Horton Foote
Jefferson Davis
Total episodes: 9
Extra
Release Date
September 23, 1990Last air Date
September 27, 1990Status
EndedOriginal Language
German, EnglishNetworks
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Miniseries
Aired on: 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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