The Civil War

Documentary 1990 · 1h 16m

Documentary War & Politics

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The Civil War

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

Cast

20 people

David McCullough Narrator (voice)

Sam Waterston Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Julie Harris Mary Chestnut (voice)

Jason Robards Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

Morgan Freeman Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)

Paul Roebling Joshua Chamberlain (voice)

Garrison Keillor Walt Whitman (voice)

G George Black Robert E. Lee (voice)

Arthur Miller William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)

Christopher Murney Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)

C Charles McDowell Samuel R. Watkins (voice)

Horton Foote Jefferson Davis (voice)

George Plimpton George Templeton Strong (voice)

Philip Bosco Horace Greeley (voice)

T Terry Courier George B. McClellan (voice)

J Jody Powell Stonewall Jackson / Various (voice)

Studs Terkel Benjamin Butler / Various

Hoyt Axton Various (voice)