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1990 Documentary War & Politics

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.

7.9 TMDB RATING
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Principal 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

George Black

Robert E. Lee

Arthur Miller

William Tecumseh Sherman

Christopher Murney

Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Charles McDowell

Samuel R. Watkins

Horton Foote

Jefferson Davis

George Plimpton

George Templeton Strong

Philip Bosco

Horace Greeley

Terry Courier

George B. McClellan

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