The Civil War

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  David McCullough

  Narrator (voice)

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  Sam Waterston

  Abraham Lincoln (voice)

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  Julie Harris

  Mary Chestnut (voice)

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  Jason Robards

  Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

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  Morgan Freeman

  Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)

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  Paul Roebling

  Joshua Chamberlain (voice)

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  Garrison Keillor

  Walt Whitman (voice)

• GB

  George Black

  Robert E. Lee (voice)

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  Arthur Miller

  William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)

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  Christopher Murney

  Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)

• CM

  Charles McDowell

  Samuel R. Watkins (voice)

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  Horton Foote

  Jefferson Davis (voice)

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  George Plimpton

  George Templeton Strong (voice)

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  Philip Bosco

  Horace Greeley (voice)

• TC

  Terry Courier

  George B. McClellan (voice)

• JP

  Jody Powell

  Stonewall Jackson / Various (voice)

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  Studs Terkel

  Benjamin Butler / Various

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  Hoyt Axton

  Various (voice)

Media

Seasons 2

S0

Specials

15 Episodes

Miniseries

19909 Episodes

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.