The Civil War (1990)
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.
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Miniseries
22 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
Arthur Miller
Christopher Murney
Horton Foote
George Plimpton
Philip Bosco
Studs Terkel
Hoyt Axton
John Hartford
Colleen Dewhurst
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