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.

Documentary War & Politics

David McCullough

Sam Waterston

(Abraham Lincoln)

Julie Harris

(Mary Chestnut)

Jason Robards

(Ulysses S. Grant)

Morgan Freeman

(Frederick Douglass)

Paul Roebling

(Joshua Chamberlain)

Garrison Keillor

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)

Jody Powell

(Stonewall Jackson / Various)

Studs Terkel

(Benjamin Butler / Various)

Hoyt Axton

John Hartford

Colleen Dewhurst

Shelby Foote

Ronnie Gilbert

Jeremy Irons

Gene Jones

Derek Jacobi

Kurt Vonnegut

Laurence Fishburne

Pamela Reed

M. Emmet Walsh