Release Date

23 Sep, 1990

Runtime

01:16: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

9/1

Synopsis

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

Original Title

The Civil War

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Specials

Miniseries

23 Sep, 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.

Actors

David McCullough

Sam Waterston

Julie Harris

Jason Robards

Morgan Freeman

Paul Roebling

Garrison Keillor

George Black

Arthur Miller

Christopher Murney

Charles McDowell

Horton Foote

George Plimpton

Philip Bosco

Terry Courier

Jody Powell

Studs Terkel

Hoyt Axton

John Hartford

Colleen Dewhurst

Shelby Foote

Crew

Paul Barnes

Jay Ungar

Ken Burns

Ric Burns

Catherine Yang Eisele

Mike Hill

Stephen Ives

Julie A. Dunfey

Ken Burns