The Civil War

Sep 23, 1990 (en) Documentary, War & Politics, Drama [76] Min
  • First Air Date
    Sep 23, 1990
  • Production
    Florentine Films, American Documentary Films Inc., Kenneth Lauren Burns, WETA, Time-Life Video
  • Rotten tomato
    81.35%
  • Original title
    The Civil War
  • Release
    Sep 23, 1990
  • en
    -

Overview

A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Stephen Ives, Catherine Yang Eisele, Mike Hill, Julie A. Dunfey, Ric Burns

    Producer

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Casts

  1. David McCullough

    Narrator

  2. Sam Waterston

    Abraham Lincoln

  3. Julie Harris

    Mary Chestnut

  4. Jason Robards

    Ulysses S. Grant

  5. Morgan Freeman

    Frederick Douglass

  6. Paul Roebling

    Joshua Chamberlain

  7. Garrison Keillor

    Walt Whitman

  8. George Black

    Robert E. Lee

  9. Arthur Miller

    William Tecumseh Sherman

  10. Christopher Murney

    Elisha Hunt Rhodes

  11. Charles McDowell

    Samuel R. Watkins

  12. Horton Foote

    Jefferson Davis

  13. George Plimpton

    George Templeton Strong

  14. Philip Bosco

    Horace Greeley

  15. Terry Courier

    George B. McClellan

  16. Jody Powell

    Stonewall Jackson / Various

  17. Studs Terkel

    Benjamin Butler / Various

  18. Hoyt Axton

    Various

  19. John Hartford

    Various

  20. Colleen Dewhurst

    Various

  21. Shelby Foote

    Various

  22. Ronnie Gilbert

    Various

  23. Jeremy Irons

    Various

  24. Gene Jones

    Various

  25. Derek Jacobi

    Various

  26. Kurt Vonnegut

    Various

  27. Laurence Fishburne

    Various

  28. Pamela Reed

    Various

  29. M. Emmet Walsh

    Various

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 29 / Crews : 9

Specials ( )

Reconstruction: The Making of The Civil War

Episode: 1

Ken Burns - Making History

Episode: 2

A Conversation with Ken Burns

Episode: 3

An Interview with Ken Burns

Episode: 4

An Interview with Shelby Foote

Episode: 5

An Interview with George Will

Episode: 6

An Interview with Stanley Crouch

Episode: 7

An Interview with Jay Ungar and Molly Mason

Episode: 8

Making 'The Civil War' 25 Years Later

Episode: 9

Remembering 'The Civil War'

Episode: 10

'The Civil War' in the Classroom

Episode: 11

Restoring 'The Civil War'

Episode: 12

Shelby Foote Full Interview #1 April 17, 1986

Episode: 13

Shelby Foote Full Interview #2 March 28, 1987

Episode: 14

Shelby Foote Full Interview #3 May 2, 1987

Episode: 15

Miniseries ( 1990-09-22)

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.

The Cause: 1861

Episode: 1

A Very Bloody Affair: 1862

Episode: 2

Forever Free: 1862

Episode: 3

Simply Murder: 1863

Episode: 4

The Universe of Battle: 1863

Episode: 5

Valley of the Shadow of Death: 1864

Episode: 6

Most Hallowed Ground: 1864

Episode: 7

War is All Hell: 1865

Episode: 8

The Better Angels of Our Nature: 1865

Episode: 9
Sep 23, 1990 (en)
Documentary, War & Politics, Drama
[76] Min
  • First Air Date Sep 23, 1990
  • Production
    Florentine Films, American Documentary Films Inc., Kenneth Lauren Burns, WETA, Time-Life Video
  • Rotten tomato 81.35%
Original Title The Civil War
en

Overview

A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Stephen Ives, Catherine Yang Eisele, Mike Hill, Julie A. Dunfey, Ric Burns

    Producer