The Civil War (1990)
Kernel Score: 86% · 122 ratings
Genres: Documentary, War & Politics
First aired: 1990-09-23
Seasons: 1 · 9 episodes
Overview
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Cast
- David McCullough as Narrator
- Sam Waterston as Abraham Lincoln
- Julie Harris as Mary Chestnut
- Jason Robards as Ulysses S. Grant
- Morgan Freeman as Frederick Douglass
- Paul Roebling as Joshua Chamberlain
- Garrison Keillor as Walt Whitman
- George Black as Robert E. Lee
- Arthur Miller as William Tecumseh Sherman
- Christopher Murney as Elisha Hunt Rhodes