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The Civil War
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Title: The Civil War

Release Date: 23 Sep 1990

Runtime: 1h 16m

Genre: Documentary, War & Politics, Drama

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

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

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Ratings

Average Vote: 8.1 (105 votes)

Cast

  • 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
  • Robert E. Lee: George Black
  • William Tecumseh Sherman: Arthur Miller
  • Elisha Hunt Rhodes: Christopher Murney
  • Samuel R. Watkins: Charles McDowell
  • Jefferson Davis: Horton Foote
  • George Templeton Strong: George Plimpton
  • Horace Greeley: Philip Bosco
  • George B. McClellan: Terry Courier
  • Stonewall Jackson / Various: Jody Powell
  • Benjamin Butler / Various: Studs Terkel
  • Various: Hoyt Axton
  • Various: John Hartford
  • Various: Colleen Dewhurst
  • Various: Shelby Foote
  • Various: Ronnie Gilbert
  • Various: Jeremy Irons
  • Various: Gene Jones
  • Various: Derek Jacobi
  • Various: Kurt Vonnegut
  • Various: Laurence Fishburne
  • Various: Pamela Reed
  • Various: M. Emmet Walsh
  • The Civil War (Specials)

    The Civil War (Miniseries)

    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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