The Civil War
(2011)

Nonfiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/973.7/CIVIL

0 Holds on 1 Copy

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Nonfiction DVDs DVD/973.7/CIVIL Due: 4/10/2024

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. : distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, [2011]
©2011
DESCRIPTION

6 videodiscs (660 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm)

ISBN/ISSN
9781608834020 CIVW6400, 1608834026 84913, 1415757836 841887027397, 9781415757833, 841887014052, 097368491342
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from container

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

Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 1990

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

Director, Ken Burns

George Plimpton, Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman, Sam Waterston; Narration: David McCullough

Rating: Not rated

DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen presentation; 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereo

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

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

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