The Civil War-Tv

Popularity: 8.2156

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

First Air Date: 1990-09-23

Last Air Date: 1990-09-27

Status: Ended

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 9

Genre:

Documentary War & Politics Drama

Production Companies: Florentine Films, American Documentary Films Inc., Kenneth Lauren Burns, WETA, Time-Life Video

Cast

David McCullough

Narrator

Sam Waterston

Abraham Lincoln

Julie Harris

Mary Chestnut

Jason Robards

Ulysses S. Grant

Morgan Freeman

Frederick Douglass

Paul Roebling

Joshua Chamberlain

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Seasons

Miniseries

1990-09-22 • Episodes: 9

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.