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The Civil War

1990Rating8.0· 76 minDocumentaryWar & Politics

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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Cast & Crew

  • David McCullough

    David McCullough

    Narrator (voice)

  • Sam Waterston

    Sam Waterston

    Abraham Lincoln (voice)

  • Julie Harris

    Julie Harris

    Mary Chestnut (voice)

  • Jason Robards

    Jason Robards

    Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

  • Morgan Freeman

    Morgan Freeman

    Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)

  • Paul Roebling

    Paul Roebling

    Joshua Chamberlain (voice)

  • Garrison Keillor

    Garrison Keillor

    Walt Whitman (voice)

  • George Black

    Robert E. Lee (voice)

  • Arthur Miller

    Arthur Miller

    William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)

  • Christopher Murney

    Christopher Murney

    Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)

  • Charles McDowell

    Samuel R. Watkins (voice)

  • Horton Foote

    Horton Foote

    Jefferson Davis (voice)

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