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.
Episodes
Loading episodes…
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)
George Black
Robert E. Lee (voice)
Arthur Miller
William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)
Christopher Murney
Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)
More like this
20 titles
The American Revolution
2025
WWII in HD
2009
The War
2007
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
The World at War
1973
World War II in Colour
2009
Superpowered: The DC Story
2023
American Experience
1988
The Americas
2025
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
2021
History's Greatest Mysteries
2020
Savage Kingdom
2016
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
The Movies
2019
Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All
2023
Mysteries at the Museum
2010
The Circus
2016
American Monster
2016
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020