Overview
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Cast
- David McCullough as Narrator (voice)
- Sam Waterston as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
- Julie Harris as Mary Chestnut (voice)
- Jason Robards as Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
- Morgan Freeman as Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)
- Paul Roebling as Joshua Chamberlain (voice)
- Garrison Keillor as Walt Whitman (voice)
- George Black as Robert E. Lee (voice)
- Arthur Miller as William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)
- Christopher Murney as Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)