DVD
Death and the Civil War
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Narrated by Oliver Platt ; voices: James Cromwell, Keith David, Josh Hamilton, Gene Jones, Robert Sean Leonard, Amy Madigan, Elizabeth Marvel, Aleksa Palladino, Stark Sands.
Publication Information
[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation : Distributed by PBS Distribution, c2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Added Uniform Title
Summary
This documentary tracks the increasingly lethal arc of the Civil War, from all but bloodless opening, through the chaos of Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg--down through the struggle, in the war's aftemath, to cope with an American landscape littered with the bodies of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, many unburied, most unidentified.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the book This Republic of suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust.
Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of American experience in 2012.
Subjects
- Death > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
- Death > United States > Psychological aspects > History > 19th century.
- Burial > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
- Burial > United States > Psychological aspects > History > 19th century.
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Psychological aspects.
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.