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


The Civil War (1990)
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David McCullough
Narrator (9 episodes)

Sam Waterston
Abraham Lincoln (9 episodes)

Julie Harris
Mary Chestnut (9 episodes)

Jason Robards
Ulysses S. Grant (9 episodes)

Morgan Freeman
Frederick Douglass (9 episodes)

Paul Roebling
Joshua Chamberlain (9 episodes)

Garrison Keillor
Walt Whitman (9 episodes)
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George Black
Robert E. Lee (9 episodes)

Arthur Miller
William Tecumseh Sherman (9 episodes)
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