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A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Air day
1/1/1970
Season
0
Episodes
15
Vote average
0
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.
Air day
23/9/1990
Season
1
Episodes
9
Vote average
6.5
Season
(The Civil War)
Overview: A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
- Countries:
United States of America
- Genres:
Documentary,
War & Politics
- Networks:
PBS
- Year:
1990
- Production companies:
Florentine Films,
American Documentary Films Inc.,
Kenneth Lauren Burns,
WETA,
Time-Life Video
- Actors:
Narrator (voice)
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Mary Chestnut (voice)
Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)
- Crews:
Editor
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Producer
Producer
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