The Civil War : a film by Ken Burns

Author

Ken Burns

Call Number

• DVD 973.7 C5827 (OSH)

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Edition

Full screen version.

Performers

Narrated by David McCullough.

Publication Information

Hollywood, CA : Paramount Home Entertainment, c2004.

Physical Description

5 videodiscs (11 hrs.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This landmark documentary film series movingly and vividly presents the entire sweep of the war, from the battlefields to the homefronts, from the politicians and generals to the enlisted men and their families, from the causes of the war and the opening guns at Sumter to the stillness at Appomatox and Lincoln's assassination and beyond.

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound.

Videodisc release of the 1989 public television series.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Not rated.

Contents

• Disc one. Episode 1. The cause (1861) ; DVD special features
• Disc two. Episode 2. A very bloody affair ; Episode 3. Forever free (1862)
• Disc three. Episode 4. Simply murder ; Episode 5. The universe of battle (1863)
• Disc four. Episode 6. Valley of the shadow of death ; Episode 7. Most hallowed ground (1864)
• Disc five. Episode 8. War is all hell ; Episode 9. The better angels of our nature (1865).