Overview - The Civil War
Date of release
Genres
- Documentary
- War & Politics
- Drama
Spoken Languages
- English
- Deutsch
Production companies
Name: Florentine Films
Production country
Name: American Documentary Films Inc.
Production country
Name: Kenneth Lauren Burns
Production country
Name: WETA
Production country
Name: Time-Life Video
Production country
Overview
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Seasons
Name: Specials
Episode: 15
Date first aired:
Name: Miniseries
Episode: 9
Photographs, period paintings, lithographs and headlines of the Civil War are combined with moving newsreel footage of Civil War veterans, interviews with distinguished historians and first-person accounts in this award-winning documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns. The miniseries vividly embraces the entire sweep of the war: the complex causes and lasting effects of America's greatest and most moving calamity, the battles and the homefronts, the generals and the private soldiers, the anguish of death in battle and the grief of families at home.
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