The Civil War

Name: The Civil War
Genre: Documentary, War & Politics
Rating: 7.9
Cast: David McCullough, Sam Waterston, Julie Harris, Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman

The Civil War (1990)

Seasons: 1, episodes: 9

Episode runtime: 76 min

Average rating: 7.9/10 134

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Premiere

1990-09-23

Last episode

1990-09-27

Status

Ended

Country

United States

Network

PBS

Production

WETA, Florentine Films, Time-Life Video, American Documentary Films Inc., Kenneth Lauren Burns

Genre

Documentary, War & Politics

Website

http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/

Actors

David McCullough, Sam Waterston, Julie Harris, Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman, Paul Roebling, Garrison Keillor, George Black, Arthur Miller, Christopher Murney
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward

Producer

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

Camera operator

Ken Burns

Composer

Jay Ungar

Editing

Paul Barnes
Whole Team (9)

Short description

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

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Miniseries 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 t…	9	1990-09-23	6.4

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