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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.

Seasons

Top Cast

  • David McCullough

    David McCullough

    Narrator (voice)

  • Sam Waterston

    Sam Waterston

    Abraham Lincoln (voice)

  • Julie Harris

    Julie Harris

    Mary Chestnut (voice)

  • Jason Robards

    Jason Robards

    Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

  • Morgan Freeman

    Morgan Freeman

    Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)

  • Paul Roebling

    Paul Roebling

    Joshua Chamberlain (voice)

  • Garrison Keillor

    Garrison Keillor

    Walt Whitman (voice)

  • George Black

    George Black

    Robert E. Lee (voice)

  • Arthur Miller

    Arthur Miller

    William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)

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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