The Civil War

September 23, 1990 1 Season 9 Episodes TV-14

Ended

Documentary War & Politics

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About

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

Status: Ended

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 9

Network: PBS

Aired: 1990–1990

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)