Discover
Original Release
09/27/1990
US Release
09/27/1990
Cast
Name | Character |
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David McCullough | Self - Narrator / Narrator |
Barbara Fields | Self - Historian |
Shelby Foote | Self - Writer / Various |
James Symington | Self - Former Congressman |
Stephen B. Oates | Self - Historian |
Sam Waterston | Abraham Lincoln / President Abraham Lincoln |
Julie Harris | Mary Chestnut |
Jason Robards | Ulysses S. Grant |
Morgan Freeman | Frederick Douglass |
Paul Roebling | Joshua L. Chamberlain / Various / Joshua Chamberlain |
Directors
Writers
Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, Ken Burns
Cast
Name | Character |
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David McCullough | Self - Narrator / Narrator |
Barbara Fields | Self - Historian |
Shelby Foote | Self - Writer / Various |
James Symington | Self - Former Congressman |
Stephen B. Oates | Self - Historian |
Sam Waterston | Abraham Lincoln / President Abraham Lincoln |
Julie Harris | Mary Chestnut |
Jason Robards | Ulysses S. Grant |
Morgan Freeman | Frederick Douglass |
Paul Roebling | Joshua L. Chamberlain / Various / Joshua Chamberlain |
Garrison Keillor | Walt Whitman / Various |
George Black | Robert E. Lee |
Arthur Miller | William Tecumseh Sherman |
Christopher Murney | Pvt. Elijah Hunt Rhodes / Elisha Hunt Rhodes |
Charles McDowell | Pvt. Sam Watkins / Samuel R. Watkins |
Horton Foote | Jefferson Davis |
George Plimpton | George Templeton Strong |
Philip Bosco | Horace Greeley / Various |
Terry Courier | George McClellan / George B. McClellan |
Jody Powell | Stonewall Jackson / Various |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ken Burns | Executive Producer |
Ric Burns | Producer |
Jim Corbley | Producer |
Christopher Darling | Producer |
Julie Dunfey | Producer |
Catherine Eisele-Yang | Producer |
Mike Hill | Producer |
Stephen Ives | Producer |
Lynn Novick | Producer |
Sara O'Brien | Producer |
Justin Rhodes | Producer |
Camilla Rockwell | Producer |
Susanna Steisel | Producer |
Daniel J. White | Producer |