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The Civil War

7.919901h 16m9 episodesEnded130 votes

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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United States
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  • Thirteen
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Free with ads

  • KQED

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Seasons

Cast

  • 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)

  • No photo

    George Black

    Robert E. Lee (voice)

  • Arthur Miller

    William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)

  • Christopher Murney

    Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)

  • No photo

    Charles McDowell

    Samuel R. Watkins (voice)

  • Horton Foote

    Jefferson Davis (voice)

  • George Plimpton

    George Templeton Strong (voice)

  • Philip Bosco

    Horace Greeley (voice)

  • No photo

    Terry Courier

    George B. McClellan (voice)

  • No photo

    Jody Powell

    Stonewall Jackson / Various (voice)

  • Studs Terkel

    Benjamin Butler / Various

  • Hoyt Axton

    Various (voice)

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