The Civil War (1990)
DocumentaryWar & PoliticsDrama
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Cast
David McCullough
Narrator
Sam Waterston
Abraham Lincoln
Julie Harris
Mary Chestnut
Jason Robards
Ulysses S. Grant
Morgan Freeman
Frederick Douglass
Paul Roebling
Joshua Chamberlain
Garrison Keillor
Walt Whitman
George Black
Robert E. Lee
Arthur Miller
William Tecumseh Sherman
Christopher Murney
Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Seasons
Season 1 Episodes
Episode 1
The Cause: 1861
Episode 2
A Very Bloody Affair: 1862
Episode 3
Forever Free: 1862
Episode 4
Simply Murder: 1863
Episode 5
The Universe of Battle: 1863
Episode 6
Valley of the Shadow of Death: 1864
Episode 7
Most Hallowed Ground: 1864
Episode 8
War is All Hell: 1865
Episode 9
The Better Angels of Our Nature: 1865