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1990 · Documentary, War & Politics · 7.9/10 (137 votes) · 1 season · 9 episodes · Ended

Synopsis

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

Creators & Crew

Music by Jay Ungar

Cast

• David McCullough as Narrator (voice) (Acting)
• Sam Waterston as Abraham Lincoln (voice) (Acting)
• Julie Harris as Mary Chestnut (voice) (Acting)
• Jason Robards as Ulysses S. Grant (voice) (Acting)
• Morgan Freeman as Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice) (Acting)
• Paul Roebling as Joshua Chamberlain (voice) (Acting)
• Garrison Keillor as Walt Whitman (voice) (Acting)
• George Black as Robert E. Lee (voice) (Acting)
• Arthur Miller as William Tecumseh Sherman (voice) (Writing)
• Christopher Murney as Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice) (Acting)
• Charles McDowell as Samuel R. Watkins (voice) (Acting)
• Horton Foote as Jefferson Davis (voice) (Writing)

Seasons

• 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.

Details

Genres: Documentary, War & Politics

Languages: German, English

Country: United States of America

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

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