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The Civil War
(en)
8.0
1990
76m
Documentary
War & Politics
Drama
Overview: A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Status: Ended
Release date: September 23, 1990
Number of season: 1
Number of episode: 9
- Florentine Films
- American Documentary Films Inc.
- Kenneth Lauren Burns
- WETA
Top Cast
David McCullough
as Narrator
Sam Waterston
as Abraham Lincoln
Julie Harris
as Mary Chestnut
Jason Robards
as Ulysses S. Gran...
Morgan Freeman
as Frederick Dougl...
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Seasons
Miniseries
September 22, 1990.
9 Episodes
Overview: 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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