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The Civil War (1990)

  • Sep 23, 1990
  • 1 season · 9 episodes
  • TV-14
TMDB user score 8.0/10 140 votes on TMDB
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Story

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

Synopsis from TMDB.

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Series Cast

  • David McCullough Narrator (voice) 9 episodes
  • Sam Waterston Abraham Lincoln (voice) 9 episodes
  • Julie Harris Mary Chestnut (voice) 9 episodes
  • Jason Robards Ulysses S. Grant (voice) 9 episodes
  • Morgan Freeman Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice) 9 episodes
  • Paul Roebling Joshua Chamberlain (voice) 9 episodes
  • Garrison Keillor Walt Whitman (voice) 9 episodes
  • George Black Robert E. Lee (voice) 9 episodes
  • Arthur Miller William Tecumseh Sherman (voice) 9 episodes
  • Christopher Murney Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice) 9 episodes
  • Charles McDowell Samuel R. Watkins (voice) 9 episodes
  • Horton Foote Jefferson Davis (voice) 9 episodes
  • George Plimpton George Templeton Strong (voice) 9 episodes
  • Philip Bosco Horace Greeley (voice) 9 episodes
  • Terry Courier George B. McClellan (voice) 9 episodes
  • Jody Powell Stonewall Jackson / Various (voice) 9 episodes
  • Studs Terkel Benjamin Butler / Various 9 episodes
  • Hoyt Axton Various (voice) 9 episodes

Seasons

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