| Description |
6 DVDs (660 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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mixed |
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NTSC |
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video file |
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DVD video |
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region 1 |
| System Details |
DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen presentation; 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereo. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Cast |
George Plimpton, Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman, Sam Waterston; Narration: David McCullough. |
| Note |
Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 1990. |
| Audience |
Rating: Not rated. |
| Summary |
Ken Burns' Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one. |
| Contents |
Disc 1: Cause (episode 1) 1861 -- disc 2: Very bloody affair (episode 2) ; Forever free (episode 3) 1862 -- disc 3: Simply murder (episode 4); Universe of battle (episode 5) 1863 -- disc 4: Valley of the shadow of death (episode 6) ; Most hallowed ground (episode 7) 1864 -- disc 5: War is all hell (episode 8) ; Better angels of our nature (episode 9) 1865 -- disc 6: Bonus disc. |
| Note |
Special features: Bonus disc: From the archive: Shelby Foote interviews; interview with Ken Burns; additional interviews: George Will, Stanley Crouch, Shelby Foote, and Jay Ungar & Molly Mason; commentary with Ken Burns; biography cards; battlefield maps; Civil War challenge. |
| Credits |
Director, Ken Burns. |
| Language |
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Confederate States of America -- History, Military.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. |
| Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs.
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Documentary television programs.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Historical television programs.
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Historical television programs.
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Television mini-series.
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Television mini-series.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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| Added Author |
Burns, Ken, 1953-
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Ward, Geoffrey C.
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Burns, Ric.
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McCullough, David G.
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Plimpton, George.
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Freeman, Morgan.
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Robards, Jason.
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PBS Home Video.
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| ISBN |
9781608834020 |
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1608834026 |
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1415757836 |
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9781415757833 |
| Standard No. |
841887014052 |
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097368491342 |
| Music No. |
CIVW6400 PBS Home Video |
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84913 PBS Home Video |
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