Plot
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Cast
as Narrator
as Abraham Lincoln
as Mary Chestnut
as Ulysses S. Grant
as Frederick Douglass
as Joshua Chamberlain
as Walt Whitman
as Robert E. Lee
as William Tecumseh Sherman
as Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
September 23, 1990
Last Aired Date
September 27, 1990
Production Companies
Florentine Films
American Documentary Films Inc.
Kenneth Lauren Burns
WETA
Time-Life Video
Type
Miniseries
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
9
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Miniseries
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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