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The Civil War (1990)

7.9(129)1 seasonSeptember 23, 1990

Documentary War & Politics

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Overview

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

Episodes

Miniseries

9 episodes · 1990

Cast

David McCullough

Narrator (voice)

Sam Waterston

Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Julie Harris

Mary Chestnut (voice)

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Jason Robards

Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

Morgan Freeman

Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)

Paul Roebling

Joshua Chamberlain (voice)

Garrison Keillor

Walt Whitman (voice)

Arthur Miller

William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)

Christopher Murney

Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)

Horton Foote

Jefferson Davis (voice)

George Plimpton

George Templeton Strong (voice)

Philip Bosco

Horace Greeley (voice)

Studs Terkel

Benjamin Butler / Various

Hoyt Axton

Various (voice)

John Hartford

Various (voice)

Colleen Dewhurst

Various (voice)

Media

Status: Ended
Type: Miniseries
Original language: English
First aired: September 23, 1990
Last aired: September 27, 1990
Episodes: 9
Network: PBS
Production: Florentine Films, American Documentary Films Inc., Kenneth Lauren Burns, WETA, Time-Life Video
Country: United States of America

Keywords

civil warslaveryminiseriesamerican civil war19th century

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