The Civil War
19901 season · 9 epEndedTV-14
DocumentaryWar & Politics
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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Cast
David McCullough
Narrator (voice)
Sam Waterston
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Julie Harris
Mary Chestnut (voice)
Jason Robards
Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
Morgan Freeman
Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)
Paul Roebling
Joshua Chamberlain (voice)
Garrison Keillor
Walt Whitman (voice)
George Black
Robert E. Lee (voice)
Arthur Miller
William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)
Christopher Murney
Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)
Charles McDowell
Samuel R. Watkins (voice)
Horton Foote
Jefferson Davis (voice)
George Plimpton
George Templeton Strong (voice)
Philip Bosco
Horace Greeley (voice)
Terry Courier
George B. McClellan (voice)
Jody Powell
Stonewall Jackson / Various (voice)
Studs Terkel
Benjamin Butler / Various
Hoyt Axton
Various (voice)
John Hartford
Various (voice)
Colleen Dewhurst
Various (voice)
Episodes
Ended
1. The Cause: 1861
Sep 23, 1990 6.2
2. A Very Bloody Affair: 1862
Sep 24, 1990 5.9
3. Forever Free: 1862
Sep 24, 1990 6.5
4. Simply Murder: 1863
Sep 25, 1990 6.5
5. The Universe of Battle: 1863
Sep 25, 1990 6.5
6. Valley of the Shadow of Death: 1864
Sep 26, 1990 6.5
7. Most Hallowed Ground: 1864
Sep 26, 1990 6.5
8. War Is All Hell: 1865
Sep 27, 1990 6.7
9. The Better Angels of Our Nature: 1865
Sep 27, 1990 6.5
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