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The Civil War(1990)
81%
110 Votes
Overview
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Type: Miniseries
Status: Ended
Languages: EnglishGerman
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Production Companies:
American Documentary Films Inc.
Kenneth Lauren Burns
Top 10 Billed Cast
David McCullough
Narrator
Sam Waterston
Abraham Lincoln
Julie Harris
Mary Chestnut
Jason Robards
Ulysses S. Grant
Morgan Freeman
Frederick Douglass
Paul Roebling
Joshua Chamberlain
Garrison Keillor
Walt Whitman
Arthur Miller
William Tecumseh Sherman
Christopher Murney
Elisha Hunt Rhodes
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