Top billed cast

1. 

   David McCullough

   Narrator (voice)

2. 

   Sam Waterston

   Abraham Lincoln (voice)

3. 

   Julie Harris

   Mary Chestnut (voice)

4. 

   Jason Robards

   Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

5. 

   Morgan Freeman

   Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)

6. 

   Paul Roebling

   Joshua Chamberlain (voice)

7. 

   Garrison Keillor

   Walt Whitman (voice)

8. 

   George Black

   Robert E. Lee (voice)

9. 

   Arthur Miller

   William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)

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Season 1

1990 | 9 Episodes

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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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
The Civil War

Keywords

• civil war
• slavery
• miniseries
• american civil war
• 19th century
• american historical foundation
• american history
• war documentary
• historical documentary
• historical events