

Overview
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Available in 9 countries worldwide
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Key Cast

David McCullough
Narrator (voice)

Sam Waterston
Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Julie Harris
Mary Chestnut (voice)

Jason Robards
Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

Morgan Freeman
Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)

Paul Roebling
Joshua Chamberlain (voice)

Garrison Keillor
Walt Whitman (voice)

Arthur Miller
William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)
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