The Civil War /

The Civil War / Videorecording. Ken Burns; Geoffrey C Ward; Ric Burns; David G McCullough; Colleen Dewhurst. - Burbank, CA : PBS Home Video : Warner Home Video, [2002] - 5 videodiscs (approximately 660 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

"PBS DVD Gold."
Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 1990; produced in 1989.
Special features, disc 1: behind-the-scenes: "The Civil War Reconstruction" ; commentary track by Ken Burns ; interviews with George Will, Shelby Foote and Stanley Crouch ; biography cards and battlefield maps.
Special features: behind-the-scenes: "The Civil War Reconstruction"; commentary track by Ken Burns; interviews with George Will, Shelby Foote and Stanley Crouch; biography cards and interactive maps.

Disc 1. Episode one : the Cause (1861), DVD special features --
Disc 2. Episodes two and three : A Very Bloody Affair, Forever Free (1862) --
Disc 3. Episodes four and five: Simply Murder, the Universe of Battle (1863) --
Disc 4. Episodes six and seven : Valley of the Shadow of Death, Most Hallowed Ground (1864) --
Disc 5. Episodes eight and nine : War is All Hell, the Better Angles of Our Nature (1865).

Narrator, David McCullough ; cinematographers, Ken Burns, Buddy Squires ; editors, Paul Barnes, Tricia Reidy, Bruce Shaw. Narrator, David McCullough ; cinematographers, Ken Burns, Buddy Squires ; editors, Paul Barnes, Tricia Reidy, Bruce Shaw.

Voices: Hoyt Axton, Colleen Dewhurst, Laurence Fishburne, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Jason Robards, Sam Waterston.


An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.

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United States --Civil War, 1861-1865. --History
Lincoln, Abraham, --1809-1865.
United States.

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