
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
First Aired: 9/23/1990
Languages: German, English
Type: Miniseries
Companies: Florentine Films, American Documentary Films Inc., Kenneth Lauren Burns, WETA, Time-Life Video
Countries: United States of America

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.
15 episodes
Mary Chestnut (voice)

David McCullough
Narrator (voice)

Sam Waterston
Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Julie Harris
Mary Chestnut (voice)

Jason Robards
Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

Morgan Freeman
Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)

Paul Roebling
Joshua Chamberlain (voice)

Garrison Keillor
Walt Whitman (voice)
George Black
Robert E. Lee (voice)

Arthur Miller
William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)

Christopher Murney
Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)
Charles McDowell
Samuel R. Watkins (voice)

Horton Foote
Jefferson Davis (voice)
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