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The Civil War( 1990)

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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.

    Series Cast

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      David McCullough

      Narrator

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      Sam Waterston

      Abraham Lincoln

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      Julie Harris

      Mary Chestnut

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      Jason Robards

      Ulysses S. Grant

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      Morgan Freeman

      Frederick Douglass

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      Paul Roebling

      Joshua Chamberlain

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      Garrison Keillor

      Walt Whitman

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      George Black

      Robert E. Lee

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      Arthur Miller

      William Tecumseh Sherman

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      Christopher Murney

      Elisha Hunt Rhodes

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      Charles McDowell

      Samuel R. Watkins

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      Horton Foote

      Jefferson Davis

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      George Plimpton

      George Templeton Strong

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      Philip Bosco

      Horace Greeley

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      Terry Courier

      George B. McClellan

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      Jody Powell

      Stonewall Jackson / Various

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      Studs Terkel

      Benjamin Butler / Various

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      Hoyt Axton

      Various

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      John Hartford

      Various

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      Colleen Dewhurst

      Various

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      Shelby Foote

      Various

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      Ronnie Gilbert

      Various

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      Jeremy Irons

      Various

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      Gene Jones

      Various

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      Derek Jacobi

      Various

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      Kurt Vonnegut

      Various

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      Laurence Fishburne

      Various

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      Pamela Reed

      Various

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      M. Emmet Walsh

      Various

    Current Season

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    Miniseries

    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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    Facts

    Status

    Ended

    Status

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    Type

    Miniseries

    Original Language

    English

    Keywords

    • slavery
    • miniseries
    • american civil war
    • robert e lee