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The Civil War
7.9 / 10• 1990•1 Season · 9 Episodes•TV-14• English•Ended
DocumentaryWar & Politics
About the show
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Starring

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)
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George Black
Robert E. Lee (voice)










