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The Civil War

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The Civil War

7.9

1990

Synopsis

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

DocumentaryWar & Politics

civil warslaveryminiseriesamerican civil war19th centuryamerican historical foundationhistorical documentaryhistorical events

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Cast & Crew

David McCullough

David McCullough

as Narrator

Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

as Abraham Lincoln

Julie Harris

Julie Harris

as Mary Chestnut

Jason Robards

Jason Robards

as Ulysses S. Grant

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman

as Frederick Douglass

Paul Roebling

Paul Roebling

as Joshua Chamberlain

Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor

as Walt Whitman

George Black

as Robert E. Lee

Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

as William Tecumseh Sherman

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