The Civil War (1990)
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Cast & Crew
- Director
Narrator David McCullough
Abraham Lincoln Sam Waterston
Mary Chestnut Julie Harris
Ulysses S. Grant Jason Robards
Frederick Douglass Morgan Freeman
Joshua Chamberlain Paul Roebling
Walt Whitman Garrison Keillor
William Tecumseh Sherman Arthur Miller
Miniseries
1990
9 episodes
Season 1 of The Civil War premiered on September 22, 1990
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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Keywords
- civil war
- slavery
- miniseries
- american civil war
- robert e lee
- 19th century
- american historical foundation
- historical documentary
- historical events