The Civil War (1990)
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
- First aired
- 1990-09-23
- Genres
- Documentary, War & Politics
- Seasons
- 1 (9 episodes)
- Status
- Ended
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 from 140 votes
Cast
- David McCullough as Narrator (voice)
- Sam Waterston as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
- Julie Harris as Mary Chestnut (voice)
- Jason Robards as Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
- Morgan Freeman as Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)
- Paul Roebling as Joshua Chamberlain (voice)
- Garrison Keillor as Walt Whitman (voice)
- George Black as Robert E. Lee (voice)
- Arthur Miller as William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)
- Christopher Murney as Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)
- Charles McDowell as Samuel R. Watkins (voice)
- Horton Foote as Jefferson Davis (voice)
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