The Civil War

8.0(116 votes)

1990 - 1990

76m per episode

Ended1 Season9 Episodes

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.

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Network:

PBS

Country:US

Languages

Original:en

Spoken:

EnglishGerman

Seasons

Miniseries

9 episodes

7.3

1990

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

Charles McDowell

Samuel R. Watkins

Horton Foote

Jefferson Davis

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