KEN BURNS: THE CIVIL WAR 2011 COMMEMORATIVE EDITION

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• Release Year: 1990
• Genre: Documentary, War
• Plot: The Civil War, the Emmy Award-winning nine-part series from Ken Burns, is now fully restored to high definition, achieving the optimal picture quality originally intended. This six-disc collector's set also features over two hours of new bonus video.; ; Hailed as a film masterpiece and landmark in historical storytelling, Ken Burn's epic documentary brings to life America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. With digitally enhanced images and 5.1 surround sound, here is the sage 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.
• Cast: Sam Waterston, Julie Harris, Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman, Paul Roebling, Garrison Keillor, George Black, David McCullough, Arthur Miller, Christopher Murney, Charles McDowell, Horton Foote, George Plimpton, Philip Bosco, Terry Courier, Jody Powell, Studs Terkel, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Gene Jones, Jerome Dempsey, Laurence Fishburne, Betsy Apple, Carol Craven, Marissa Copeland, Halo Wines, David Marks, Pamela Reed, Ronnie Gilbert, M. Emmet Walsh, Hoyt Axton, John Hartford, Walt MacPherson, Colleen Dewhurst, LaTanya Richardson, Bradford Washburn, Jesse Carr, Wendy Tilghman, Joe Mattys, Shelby Foote, Ed Bearss, Barbara Fields, James Symington, Stephen B. Oates, William Safire, Daisy Turner, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward
• Director: Ken Burns
• Runtime: 11:00
• Company: PBS, Florentine Films
• Media Format: Series