The Civil War
First air date: 1990-09-23

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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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David McCullough

as Narrator

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Sam Waterston

as Abraham Lincoln

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Julie Harris

as Mary Chestnut

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Jason Robards

as Ulysses S. Grant

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Morgan Freeman

as Frederick Douglass

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Paul Roebling

as Joshua Chamberlain

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Garrison Keillor

as Walt Whitman

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George Black

as Robert E. Lee

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Arthur Miller

as William Tecumseh Sherman

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Christopher Murney

as Elisha Hunt Rhodes

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Charles McDowell

as Samuel R. Watkins

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Horton Foote

as Jefferson Davis

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George Plimpton

as George Templeton Strong

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Philip Bosco

as Horace Greeley

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Terry Courier

as George B. McClellan

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Jody Powell

as Stonewall Jackson / Various

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Studs Terkel

as Benjamin Butler / Various

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Hoyt Axton

as Various

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John Hartford

as Various

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Colleen Dewhurst

as Various

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Jay Ungar

Original Music Composer

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Ken Burns

Director of Photography

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Ken Burns

Executive Producer

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