The Civil War

Overview

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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Free

WETA+

With ads

KQED

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Top 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)

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George Black

Robert E. Lee (voice)

Arthur Miller

William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)

Christopher Murney

Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)

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Charles McDowell

Samuel R. Watkins (voice)

Horton Foote

Jefferson Davis (voice)