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23 September 1990 (USA)
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It divided a country. It created a nation.
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A comprehensive survey of the American Civil War. full summary
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Awards:
Won 2 Primetime Emmys.
Another 7 wins
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1 nomination
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OUTSTANDING!
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Cast
(Series Cast [13])| Sam Waterston | ... | President Abraham Lincoln (9 episodes, 1990) | |
| Jason Robards | ... | Ulysses S. Grant (9 episodes, 1990) | |
| Morgan Freeman | ... | Frederick Douglass (9 episodes, 1990) | |
| Garrison Keillor | ... | Walt Whitman (9 episodes, 1990) | |
| Arthur Miller | ... | William Tecumseh Sherman (9 episodes, 1990) | |
| George Plimpton | ... | George Templeton Strong (9 episodes, 1990) | |
| Horton Foote | ... | Jefferson Davis (9 episodes, 1990) | |
| George Black | ... | Robert E. Lee (9 episodes, 1990) | |
| Philip Bosco | ... | Horace Greeley (9 episodes, 1990) | |
| Derek Jacobi | ... | Various (9 episodes, 1990) | |
| Jeremy Irons | ... | Various (9 episodes, 1990) | |
| David McCullough | ... | Narrator (9 episodes, 1990) | |
| Christopher Murney | ... | Elijah Hunt Rhodes (9 episodes, 1990) |
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The American Civil War (UK)
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USA:680 min
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Sam Waterston, who voices President Abraham Lincoln, also portrayed the 16th President in the TV movie Lincoln (1988) (TV).
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Factual errors: In describing the assassination of President Lincoln, the narrator states the president was 54 years old when he died. He was, in fact, 56 years old. This mistake, however, has been corrected on the DVD.
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[On his escape from slavery.]
Frederick Douglass: I appear this evening as a thief and robber. I stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master and ran off with them.
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Frederick Douglass: I appear this evening as a thief and robber. I stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master and ran off with them.
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Spoofed in "South Park: The Red Badge of Gayness (#3.14)" (1999)
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Ashokan Farewell
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For someone who lives outside the United States of America and has an interest in it's history 'The Civil War' for me delivers everything that I'm unable to get here in the UK.
History books don't even come close in highlighting the lives and stories of the those involved in this watershed of America history, it's effects not only felt in North America but eventually the world.
Outstanding.