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.
Release Date
Sep 23, 1990
Episodes
9 episodes
CAST
David McCullough
Narrator
Sam Waterston
Abraham Lincoln
Julie Harris
Mary Chestnut
Jason Robards
Ulysses S. Grant
EPISODES
1
The Cause: 1861
Sep 23, 1990
2
A Very Bloody Affair: 1862
Sep 24, 1990
3
Forever Free: 1862
Sep 24, 1990
4
Simply Murder: 1863
Sep 25, 1990
5
The Universe of Battle: 1863
Sep 25, 1990
6
Valley of the Shadow of Death: 1864
Sep 26, 1990
7
Most Hallowed Ground: 1864
Sep 26, 1990
8
War is All Hell: 1865
Sep 27, 1990
9
The Better Angels of Our Nature: 1865
Sep 27, 1990
Details
Language
English
Country
Production
Network
Metadata
TMDB ID
19503