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The Civil War

  • 1990-2018
  • 1 Season
  • PBS
  • Documentary
  • TVPG
  • Watchlist

Ken Burns' acclaimed history of what Lincoln called America's 'fiery trial' blends vintage stills with dramatic voice-overs and on-camera commentary.

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The Civil War: A Film By Ken Burns (At Bull Run)
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Awards

  • 1991 - People's Choice Awards - Favorite TV Mini-Series - winner
  • 1991 - Emmy - Outstanding Informational Series - winner
  • 1991 - Emmy - Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming - winner

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Garrison Keillor
Walt Whitman
Paul Roebling
Joshua L. Chamberlain
George Black
Robert E. Lee

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Welcome to May sweeps (albeit still in April) and, more important, the countdown to the end of the official broadcast season on May 23. Meaning an end, for now, to those pesky repeats and the start-and-stop scheduling of favorite shows. Reason enough to celebrate? Wait until you see what NBC has in store for you tonight (or at least for those choosy few who gravitate toward the network's better Thursday night comedies).

Thu, Apr 26, 2012

Ken Burns Adds to Baseball History with The Tenth Inning

The star of Ken Burns' The Tenth Inning — besides baseball itself — is Barry Bonds. "He had to be," Burns says. While Babe Ruth did it on hot dogs and beer and Hank Aaron on a diet no one ever questioned, Bonds is suspected to have set baseball's all-time home-run record on steroids. So Bonds looms large throughout the four hours of Burns' follow-up to his Emmy-winning 1994 documentary series Baseball. Burns and partner Lynn Novick — whose credits include the masterful The Civil War and Jazz — expansively cover the last 16 years of the sport, including...

Mon, Sep 27, 2010

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