TV Series · 1990
The Civil War
76 min · War & Politics, Documentary · Ended
Composite
9.1
IMDb
9.0 / 10
26,613 votes
TMDB
7.9 / 10
134 votes
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Synopsis
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Cast
David McCullough
Narrator (voice)
Sam Waterston
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Julie Harris
Mary Chestnut (voice)
Jason Robards
Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
Morgan Freeman
Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)
Paul Roebling
Joshua Chamberlain (voice)
Garrison Keillor
Walt Whitman (voice)
George Black
Robert E. Lee (voice)
Arthur Miller
William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)
Christopher Murney
Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)
Charles McDowell
Samuel R. Watkins (voice)
Horton Foote
Jefferson Davis (voice)
George Plimpton
George Templeton Strong (voice)
Philip Bosco
Horace Greeley (voice)
Terry Courier
George B. McClellan (voice)
Jody Powell
Stonewall Jackson / Various (voice)
Studs Terkel
Benjamin Butler / Various
Hoyt Axton
Various (voice)
John Hartford
Various (voice)
Colleen Dewhurst
Various (voice)
Crew
Camera
- Ken Burns Director of Photography
Editing
- Paul Barnes Editor
Production
- Ric Burns Producer
- Catherine Yang Eisele Producer
- Mike Hill Producer
- Stephen Ives Producer
- Julie A. Dunfey Producer
- Ken Burns Executive Producer
Sound
- Jay Ungar Original Music Composer
Seasons & episodes
Miniseries (1 ep)
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9. The Better Angels of Our Nature: 1865
Sep 27, 1990 · 70 min
This extraordinary final episode of The Civil War begins in the bittersweet aftermath of Lee's surrender and then goes on to narrate the horrendous events of five days later when, on April 14, Lincoln is assassinated. After chronicling Lincoln's poignant funeral, the series recounts the final days of the war, the capture of John Wilkes Booth and the fates of the Civil War's major protagonists. The episode then considers the consequences and meaning of a war that transformed the country from a collection of states to the nation we are today.
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