David McCullough
Narrator
Total episodes: 9
Narrator
Total episodes: 9
Abraham Lincoln
Total episodes: 9
Mary Chestnut
Total episodes: 9
Ulysses S. Grant
Total episodes: 9
Frederick Douglass
Total episodes: 9
Joshua Chamberlain
Total episodes: 9
Walt Whitman
Total episodes: 9
Robert E. Lee
Total episodes: 9
William Tecumseh Sherman
Total episodes: 9
Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Total episodes: 9
Samuel R. Watkins
Total episodes: 9
Jefferson Davis
Total episodes: 9
Release Date
September 23, 1990Last air Date
September 27, 1990Status
EndedOriginal Language
English, GermanNetworks
Available On
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.