TV Series1990 · PBS · Ended · 77 min
Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible. What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.
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David McCullough
Narrator (voice)
9 episodes
Sam Waterston
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
9 episodes
Julie Harris
Mary Chestnut (voice)
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Jason Robards
Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
9 episodes
Morgan Freeman
Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)
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Paul Roebling
Joshua Chamberlain (voice)
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Garrison Keillor
Walt Whitman (voice)
9 episodes
George Black
Robert E. Lee (voice)
9 episodes
Arthur Miller
William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)
9 episodes
Christopher Murney
Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)
9 episodes
Charles McDowell
Samuel R. Watkins (voice)
9 episodes
Horton Foote
Jefferson Davis (voice)
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George Plimpton
George Templeton Strong (voice)
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Philip Bosco
Horace Greeley (voice)
9 episodes
Terry Courier
George B. McClellan (voice)
9 episodes
Jody Powell
Stonewall Jackson / Various (voice)
9 episodes
Studs Terkel
Benjamin Butler / Various
9 episodes
Hoyt Axton
Various (voice)
9 episodes
John Hartford
Various (voice)
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Colleen Dewhurst
Various (voice)
9 episodes
Shelby Foote
Various (voice)
9 episodes
Ronnie Gilbert
Various (voice)
9 episodes
Jeremy Irons
Various (voice)
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Gene Jones
Various (voice)
9 episodes
Derek Jacobi
William Russell / Various (voice)
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Kurt Vonnegut
Various (voice)
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Laurence Fishburne
Sgt. Louis Douglas / Samuel Jess / Various (voice)
9 episodes
Pamela Reed
Various (voice)
9 episodes
M. Emmet Walsh
Various (voice)
9 episodes
Barbara Fields
Various (voice)
9 episodes
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