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The War

Distributed by
Public Broadcasting Service
Written by
Geoffrey C. Ward
Music by
Wynton Marsalis, "American Anthem" music and lyrics by Gene Scheer
 performed by Norah Jones
Cinematography
Buddy Squires
Editing by
Paul Barnes
Country
United States
Language
English
Running time
14 hours (total)
The War is a seven-part American documentary television mini-series about World War II from the perspective of the United States. The program was produced by American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey Ward, and narrated primarily by Keith David.[1] It premiered on September 23, 2007. The world premiere of the series took place at the Palace Theater in Luverne, Minnesota, one of the towns featured in the documentary.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Content
2 Episodes
3 International releases
4 Critical reception
5 Controversy
6 Notes
7 External links

Content[edit]
The film focuses on World War II in a "bottom up" fashion through the lenses of four "quintessentially American towns":
Luverne, Minnesota
Mobile, Alabama
Sacramento, California
Waterbury, Connecticut
The film recounts the experiences of a number of individuals from these communities as they move through the war in the Pacific, African and European theaters, and focuses on the effect of the war on them, their families and their communities.
A number of notable actors including Adam Arkin, Tom Hanks, Ernie Hudson, Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Lucas, and Eli Wallach are heard as voice actors reading contemporary newspaper articles, telegrams, letters from the front, etc.
The full documentary runs 14 hours and was broadcast in seven parts on PBS over two weeks, starting on Sunday, September 23, 2007 and continuing four nights the first week and three nights the second week, from 8 to 10 p.m. (8 to 10:30 p.m. on three nights). The documentary was provided to PBS affiliates in two versions: One with profanity generally prohibited by FCC regulations (including explanations of the acronyms FUBAR and SNAFU) and one without the expletives.[3]
Episodes[edit]
Each episode begins with the introduction:
“ The Second World War was fought in thousands of places, too many for any one accounting.
This is the story of four American towns and how their citizens experienced that war.
 ”

No.
Episode
Original air date

1
"A Necessary War" (December 1941 – December 1942) September 23, 2007
Introduction to the American entry into World War II. Tells us about the four towns mentioned that Burns selected for its wartime experiences and of the residents of those places. By this time, they have already known of the early initial conflicts of World War II in Europe through newspapers and newsreels, but it was only through the attack on Pearl Harbor that roused an isolationist, unprepared country into mobilizing for war. But setbacks arose: The Philippines fell and with it the internment of Americans at Santo Tomas in Manila and the Bataan Death March. American shipping became easy prey for German U-boats along the American coast and in the Atlantic. But America succeeds in stopping the Japanese advances at Midway and Guadalcanal.
2
"When Things Get Tough" (January–December 1943) September 24, 2007
With American industry in full production, the United States entered the European war through the North African Campaign where they, together with Allied forces, eventually defeat the Germans in Tunisia despite the initial disaster in the Battle of Kasserine Pass. The air war over Europe and the bombing of Germany. Allied forces commenced the Italian Campaign through the invasions of Sicily and Salerno, punctuated by the experiences of the soldiers from the towns featured. The internment of Japanese Americans is also further discussed.
3
"A Deadly Calling" (November 1943 – June 1944) September 25, 2007
The American mobilization transformed cities like Mobile, Waterbury, and Sacramento into boom towns. Mobile thrived on its extensive shipyards that employed many African-Americans, but racial segregation hampers the war production effort in the United States, resulting in ugly riots like in Mobile. But African-Americans, as well as Japanese-Americans, were recruited by the armed forces into combat units and sent into action, though African-American units were still segregated. The American public finally gets to see the bloody sacrifice of their armed forces through pictures published in LIFE: One of these is the dead in the island of Buna. The American offensive in the Central Pacific begins with the Battle of Tarawa. The grueling and costly battles of Anzio and Monte Cassino in the Italian campaign. Eventually, the Allies triumph and General Clark's forces take Rome.
4
"Pride of Our Nation" (June–August 1944) September 26, 2007
1944: On D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops embark on the invasion of France, which, after initial setbacks, succeeded. D-Day is followed by the lengthy Battle of Normandy, which ends after three months with the liberation of Paris. The Marines meanwhile fight a costly battle on the island of Saipan in the Western Pacific. These were punctuated by recollections of the participants of the designated towns. The American public, through radio, the press and newsreels, were normally kept informed of the progress of the war. However, as the war progresses, the dreaded War Department casualty telegrams appear at a fast rate.
5
"FUBAR" (September–December 1944) September 30, 2007
This episode starts with the mistaken Allied assumption that the war in Europe would be over before the winter of 1944. It covers the disastrous Operation Market Garden; the bloody invasion and battle of Peleliu; the incompetence of General Dahlquist and the rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd during the horrendous Battle of Hürtgen Forest. But there are achievements: General MacArthur returns to the Philippines following the US invasion, much of the Japanese fleet was destroyed at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the heroism of the Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team; the thrill of the internees at the Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila in seeing American planes strafing Japanese ships in Manila Bay and the fall of Aachen, the first German city to be captured by the Allies. There are the experiences of African-American servicemen and those of American Indians. But the reality is that the war will not end in 1944, and more ground will have to be covered and lives lost to achieve the ultimate victory.
6
"The Ghost Front" (December 1944 – March 1945) October 1, 2007
The Germans launch a major surprise offensive in the Ardennes which becomes known as the Battle of the Bulge; the battle develops into the bloodiest of the war for the Americans. The siege of Bastogne and combat stress reaction during the war. The Santo Tomas internment camp is liberated following the Battle of Manila. The Marines assault Iwo Jima. The controversial air war against Japanese and German cities towards the end of the war. The final invasion of Germany and General Patton's attempts to rescue his son-in-law from a German prison camp behind the German lines. There are also insights into the role of medics in combat, pinups and American POWs in Japan. But still, there are newspaper reports of new setbacks and losses, and the endless and unendurable telegrams bearing the bad news from the War Department.
7
"A World Without War" (March–September 1945) October 2, 2007
The War finally reaches its end: the bloody Battle of Okinawa and the kamikaze attacks. The death of President Roosevelt and the assumption to office of Harry Truman. The Soviets commence their final assault on Berlin. Hitler's suicide and the fall of the Third Reich. The awful reality of Nazi Germany is discovered with the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and death camps. VE Day following Germany's surrender. The sinking of USS Indianapolis. Plans for the ultimate, long, and bloody conquest of Japan. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The liberation of the American POWs in Japan and VJ Day following the Japanese surrender at the USS Missouri. The episode concludes with the return and reunification of the American fighting men, and the fates of the towns and personalities first featured earlier in this series as they, and the United States, continue with the business of living in a postwar world. Extras: This is followed by David Brancaccio interviewing Ken Burns, Rev. Forbes, and Lynn Novick about what they were attempting to accomplish in this production.
International releases[edit]
In some countries, notably Australia, Switzerland, Austria, France and Germany, The War was released as a 14-episode series. The region 4 DVD release of The War splits the series into 14 episodes, but notes that it is "a seven-part documentary".
Critical reception[edit]
[icon] This section requires expansion. (May 2008)
Time magazine's James Poniewozik named the series one of the Top 10 New TV Series of 2007, ranking it at no. 9.[4]
Controversy[edit]

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The War came under fire after previews during the editing process indicated no mention of the contributions of Hispanics to the war effort, whose representation in the war itself is estimated at up to half a million people; complaints followed later as to omissions of Hispanic and Native American contributions and those of women in uniform.[5][6][7] Originally the premiere was scheduled for September 16, 2007; the fact that this date is both Mexican Independence Day and the start of U.S. observance of National Hispanic Heritage Month drew additional fire from its detractors, and the initial airdate was later moved to September 23, 2007, with no comment from PBS.[8]
Although at first the dispute seemed to be settled with the inclusion of additional footage to address the omission, in subsequent weeks, groups began to question conflicting reports from Burns and PBS as to whether the additional footage would be provided as supplementary material or would be integrated into the overall program.[9][10][11] Burns initially insisted that re-editing the film was out of the question, with PBS defending that decision on the basis of artistic freedom. Over the months of May and June, as of mid-July, 2007, estimates put out by Burns suggested that additional footage showing interviews with two Hispanics and one Native American would be added to the series, for a total of 28 minutes additional footage to the 14 hours the program was originally planned to cover; the additional footage would air at the conclusion of the selected episodes, but before each episode's final credits.[12]
News outlets began to report as of July 11 that the additional content had not been included in materials made available for preview by television writers and critics, prompting renewed discussion and speculation as to the eventual outcome of the debate.
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ The War | Pbs
2.Jump up ^ Steil, Mark (September 6, 2007). "Luverne prepares for 'The War'". MPRnews. Minneapolis: Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
3.Jump up ^ Means, Sean P. (2007-09-20). "Memories of the War: Burns' new documentary tells story through everyday Americans' eyes". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2007-10-10.
4.Jump up ^ Poniewozik, James; Top 10 New TV Series; time.com
5.Jump up ^ Guerra, Carlos (2007-04-25). "Commentary: Honor Latinos' sacrifice even if 'The War' doesn't". San Antonio News Express. Archived from the original on 2007-05-11. Retrieved 2007-06-09.
6.Jump up ^ Dick Kreck (March 4, 2007). "Latinos left out of "The War"". Denver Post. Retrieved 2007-06-09.
7.Jump up ^ Goodman, Amy (2007-04-13). "PBS Criticized for Excluding Latino, Native Voices from WWII Documentary" ("rush transcript" version of interview of Maggie Rodríguez-Rivas). Democracy Now. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
8.Jump up ^ Guerra, Carlos (2007-02-23). "PBS' WW II film no longer on Diez y Seis, but still no Latinos". San Antonio Express-News.
9.Jump up ^ Gamboa, Suzanne (2007-04-12). "Hispanics Still Unhappy With Burns Film,". The Washington Post (Associated Press).
10.Jump up ^ Farhi, Paul (2007-04-18). "Ken Burns Agrees To Expand Documentary: Inclusion of Minority WWII Service Members Follows Latino Protests". The Washington Post. p. C-1.
11.Jump up ^ Farhi, Paul (2007-04-19). "Burns Won't Reedit 'War,' PBS Clarifies". The Washington Post. p. C-1. Retrieved 2007-10-09.
12.Jump up ^ Associated Press (2007-07-11). "Ken Burns adds half-hour to 'The War' series to include Hispanic, American Indian veterans".
External links[edit]
Official website
Library of Congress' companion website
The War at the Internet Movie Database


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 The Congress (1988) ·
 The Civil War (1990) ·
 Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991) ·
 Baseball (1994) ·
 The West (1996) ·
 Thomas Jefferson (1997) ·
 Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997) ·
 Not for Ourselves Alone (1999) ·
 Jazz (2001) ·
 Mark Twain (2001) ·
 Horatio's Drive (2003) ·
 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) ·
 The War (2007) ·
 The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009) ·
 Prohibition (2011) ·
 The Dust Bowl (2012) ·
 The Central Park Five (2012) ·
 The Roosevelts (2014)
 

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The War (2007 TV series)
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The War

Distributed by
Public Broadcasting Service
Written by
Geoffrey C. Ward
Music by
Wynton Marsalis, "American Anthem" music and lyrics by Gene Scheer
 performed by Norah Jones
Cinematography
Buddy Squires
Editing by
Paul Barnes
Country
United States
Language
English
Running time
14 hours (total)
The War is a seven-part American documentary television mini-series about World War II from the perspective of the United States. The program was produced by American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey Ward, and narrated primarily by Keith David.[1] It premiered on September 23, 2007. The world premiere of the series took place at the Palace Theater in Luverne, Minnesota, one of the towns featured in the documentary.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Content
2 Episodes
3 International releases
4 Critical reception
5 Controversy
6 Notes
7 External links

Content[edit]
The film focuses on World War II in a "bottom up" fashion through the lenses of four "quintessentially American towns":
Luverne, Minnesota
Mobile, Alabama
Sacramento, California
Waterbury, Connecticut
The film recounts the experiences of a number of individuals from these communities as they move through the war in the Pacific, African and European theaters, and focuses on the effect of the war on them, their families and their communities.
A number of notable actors including Adam Arkin, Tom Hanks, Ernie Hudson, Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Lucas, and Eli Wallach are heard as voice actors reading contemporary newspaper articles, telegrams, letters from the front, etc.
The full documentary runs 14 hours and was broadcast in seven parts on PBS over two weeks, starting on Sunday, September 23, 2007 and continuing four nights the first week and three nights the second week, from 8 to 10 p.m. (8 to 10:30 p.m. on three nights). The documentary was provided to PBS affiliates in two versions: One with profanity generally prohibited by FCC regulations (including explanations of the acronyms FUBAR and SNAFU) and one without the expletives.[3]
Episodes[edit]
Each episode begins with the introduction:
“ The Second World War was fought in thousands of places, too many for any one accounting.
This is the story of four American towns and how their citizens experienced that war.
 ”

No.
Episode
Original air date

1
"A Necessary War" (December 1941 – December 1942) September 23, 2007
Introduction to the American entry into World War II. Tells us about the four towns mentioned that Burns selected for its wartime experiences and of the residents of those places. By this time, they have already known of the early initial conflicts of World War II in Europe through newspapers and newsreels, but it was only through the attack on Pearl Harbor that roused an isolationist, unprepared country into mobilizing for war. But setbacks arose: The Philippines fell and with it the internment of Americans at Santo Tomas in Manila and the Bataan Death March. American shipping became easy prey for German U-boats along the American coast and in the Atlantic. But America succeeds in stopping the Japanese advances at Midway and Guadalcanal.
2
"When Things Get Tough" (January–December 1943) September 24, 2007
With American industry in full production, the United States entered the European war through the North African Campaign where they, together with Allied forces, eventually defeat the Germans in Tunisia despite the initial disaster in the Battle of Kasserine Pass. The air war over Europe and the bombing of Germany. Allied forces commenced the Italian Campaign through the invasions of Sicily and Salerno, punctuated by the experiences of the soldiers from the towns featured. The internment of Japanese Americans is also further discussed.
3
"A Deadly Calling" (November 1943 – June 1944) September 25, 2007
The American mobilization transformed cities like Mobile, Waterbury, and Sacramento into boom towns. Mobile thrived on its extensive shipyards that employed many African-Americans, but racial segregation hampers the war production effort in the United States, resulting in ugly riots like in Mobile. But African-Americans, as well as Japanese-Americans, were recruited by the armed forces into combat units and sent into action, though African-American units were still segregated. The American public finally gets to see the bloody sacrifice of their armed forces through pictures published in LIFE: One of these is the dead in the island of Buna. The American offensive in the Central Pacific begins with the Battle of Tarawa. The grueling and costly battles of Anzio and Monte Cassino in the Italian campaign. Eventually, the Allies triumph and General Clark's forces take Rome.
4
"Pride of Our Nation" (June–August 1944) September 26, 2007
1944: On D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops embark on the invasion of France, which, after initial setbacks, succeeded. D-Day is followed by the lengthy Battle of Normandy, which ends after three months with the liberation of Paris. The Marines meanwhile fight a costly battle on the island of Saipan in the Western Pacific. These were punctuated by recollections of the participants of the designated towns. The American public, through radio, the press and newsreels, were normally kept informed of the progress of the war. However, as the war progresses, the dreaded War Department casualty telegrams appear at a fast rate.
5
"FUBAR" (September–December 1944) September 30, 2007
This episode starts with the mistaken Allied assumption that the war in Europe would be over before the winter of 1944. It covers the disastrous Operation Market Garden; the bloody invasion and battle of Peleliu; the incompetence of General Dahlquist and the rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd during the horrendous Battle of Hürtgen Forest. But there are achievements: General MacArthur returns to the Philippines following the US invasion, much of the Japanese fleet was destroyed at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the heroism of the Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team; the thrill of the internees at the Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila in seeing American planes strafing Japanese ships in Manila Bay and the fall of Aachen, the first German city to be captured by the Allies. There are the experiences of African-American servicemen and those of American Indians. But the reality is that the war will not end in 1944, and more ground will have to be covered and lives lost to achieve the ultimate victory.
6
"The Ghost Front" (December 1944 – March 1945) October 1, 2007
The Germans launch a major surprise offensive in the Ardennes which becomes known as the Battle of the Bulge; the battle develops into the bloodiest of the war for the Americans. The siege of Bastogne and combat stress reaction during the war. The Santo Tomas internment camp is liberated following the Battle of Manila. The Marines assault Iwo Jima. The controversial air war against Japanese and German cities towards the end of the war. The final invasion of Germany and General Patton's attempts to rescue his son-in-law from a German prison camp behind the German lines. There are also insights into the role of medics in combat, pinups and American POWs in Japan. But still, there are newspaper reports of new setbacks and losses, and the endless and unendurable telegrams bearing the bad news from the War Department.
7
"A World Without War" (March–September 1945) October 2, 2007
The War finally reaches its end: the bloody Battle of Okinawa and the kamikaze attacks. The death of President Roosevelt and the assumption to office of Harry Truman. The Soviets commence their final assault on Berlin. Hitler's suicide and the fall of the Third Reich. The awful reality of Nazi Germany is discovered with the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and death camps. VE Day following Germany's surrender. The sinking of USS Indianapolis. Plans for the ultimate, long, and bloody conquest of Japan. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The liberation of the American POWs in Japan and VJ Day following the Japanese surrender at the USS Missouri. The episode concludes with the return and reunification of the American fighting men, and the fates of the towns and personalities first featured earlier in this series as they, and the United States, continue with the business of living in a postwar world. Extras: This is followed by David Brancaccio interviewing Ken Burns, Rev. Forbes, and Lynn Novick about what they were attempting to accomplish in this production.
International releases[edit]
In some countries, notably Australia, Switzerland, Austria, France and Germany, The War was released as a 14-episode series. The region 4 DVD release of The War splits the series into 14 episodes, but notes that it is "a seven-part documentary".
Critical reception[edit]
[icon] This section requires expansion. (May 2008)
Time magazine's James Poniewozik named the series one of the Top 10 New TV Series of 2007, ranking it at no. 9.[4]
Controversy[edit]

Ambox rewrite.svg
 This article may be in need of reorganization to comply with Wikipedia's layout guidelines. Please help by editing the article to make improvements to the overall structure. (September 2007)
The War came under fire after previews during the editing process indicated no mention of the contributions of Hispanics to the war effort, whose representation in the war itself is estimated at up to half a million people; complaints followed later as to omissions of Hispanic and Native American contributions and those of women in uniform.[5][6][7] Originally the premiere was scheduled for September 16, 2007; the fact that this date is both Mexican Independence Day and the start of U.S. observance of National Hispanic Heritage Month drew additional fire from its detractors, and the initial airdate was later moved to September 23, 2007, with no comment from PBS.[8]
Although at first the dispute seemed to be settled with the inclusion of additional footage to address the omission, in subsequent weeks, groups began to question conflicting reports from Burns and PBS as to whether the additional footage would be provided as supplementary material or would be integrated into the overall program.[9][10][11] Burns initially insisted that re-editing the film was out of the question, with PBS defending that decision on the basis of artistic freedom. Over the months of May and June, as of mid-July, 2007, estimates put out by Burns suggested that additional footage showing interviews with two Hispanics and one Native American would be added to the series, for a total of 28 minutes additional footage to the 14 hours the program was originally planned to cover; the additional footage would air at the conclusion of the selected episodes, but before each episode's final credits.[12]
News outlets began to report as of July 11 that the additional content had not been included in materials made available for preview by television writers and critics, prompting renewed discussion and speculation as to the eventual outcome of the debate.
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ The War | Pbs
2.Jump up ^ Steil, Mark (September 6, 2007). "Luverne prepares for 'The War'". MPRnews. Minneapolis: Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
3.Jump up ^ Means, Sean P. (2007-09-20). "Memories of the War: Burns' new documentary tells story through everyday Americans' eyes". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2007-10-10.
4.Jump up ^ Poniewozik, James; Top 10 New TV Series; time.com
5.Jump up ^ Guerra, Carlos (2007-04-25). "Commentary: Honor Latinos' sacrifice even if 'The War' doesn't". San Antonio News Express. Archived from the original on 2007-05-11. Retrieved 2007-06-09.
6.Jump up ^ Dick Kreck (March 4, 2007). "Latinos left out of "The War"". Denver Post. Retrieved 2007-06-09.
7.Jump up ^ Goodman, Amy (2007-04-13). "PBS Criticized for Excluding Latino, Native Voices from WWII Documentary" ("rush transcript" version of interview of Maggie Rodríguez-Rivas). Democracy Now. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
8.Jump up ^ Guerra, Carlos (2007-02-23). "PBS' WW II film no longer on Diez y Seis, but still no Latinos". San Antonio Express-News.
9.Jump up ^ Gamboa, Suzanne (2007-04-12). "Hispanics Still Unhappy With Burns Film,". The Washington Post (Associated Press).
10.Jump up ^ Farhi, Paul (2007-04-18). "Ken Burns Agrees To Expand Documentary: Inclusion of Minority WWII Service Members Follows Latino Protests". The Washington Post. p. C-1.
11.Jump up ^ Farhi, Paul (2007-04-19). "Burns Won't Reedit 'War,' PBS Clarifies". The Washington Post. p. C-1. Retrieved 2007-10-09.
12.Jump up ^ Associated Press (2007-07-11). "Ken Burns adds half-hour to 'The War' series to include Hispanic, American Indian veterans".
External links[edit]
Official website
Library of Congress' companion website
The War at the Internet Movie Database


[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in News and Information




































[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Films of Ken Burns


Films
Brooklyn Bridge (1981) ·
 The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984) ·
 The Statue of Liberty (1985) ·
 Huey Long (1985) ·
 The Congress (1988) ·
 The Civil War (1990) ·
 Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991) ·
 Baseball (1994) ·
 The West (1996) ·
 Thomas Jefferson (1997) ·
 Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997) ·
 Not for Ourselves Alone (1999) ·
 Jazz (2001) ·
 Mark Twain (2001) ·
 Horatio's Drive (2003) ·
 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) ·
 The War (2007) ·
 The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009) ·
 Prohibition (2011) ·
 The Dust Bowl (2012) ·
 The Central Park Five (2012) ·
 The Roosevelts (2014)
 

See also
Ken Burns effect
 

 


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Films directed by Ken Burns
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The Civil War (TV series)
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The Civil War
Civil war.jpg
Genre
Documentary
Starring
David McCullough
Sam Waterston
Jason Robards
Julie Harris
Morgan Freeman
Garrison Keillor
Arthur Miller
George Plimpton
Country of origin
USA
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
9
Production

Running time
690 minutes/11 hours 30 minutes (9 episodes)
Production company(s)
American Documentaries Inc.
Kenneth Lauren Burns Productions
Distributor
PBS
Broadcast

Original channel
PBS
Picture format
1.33:1
Audio format
Mono
Original airing
September 23–27, 1990
The Civil War is a documentary film created by Ken Burns about the American Civil War. It was first broadcast on PBS on five consecutive nights from September 23 to 27, 1990. Approximately 40 million viewers watched it during its initial broadcast, making it the most-watched program ever to air on PBS. It was subsequently awarded more than 40 major television and film honors. The film was remastered on the twelfth anniversary of its release, and a book following the movie has also been released.[1] The nation was captivated by the film, which drew praise from President George H. W. Bush.


Contents  [hide]
1 Production 1.1 Music
1.2 Voices
2 Episode list
3 Reception and awards
4 2002 remastering
5 Soundtrack
6 Funding
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Production[edit]
Ken Burns was inspired to make this documentary because of Mathew Brady's photographs. More than 10 hours in length, the documentary has nine episodes that explore the Civil War through personal stories and photos. During the creation of the movie, Burns made extensive use of over 16,000 archival photographs, paintings, and newspaper images from the time of the war. The series' slow zooming and panning across the photos resulted in the coining of the term the "Ken Burns effect".
He combined these images with modern cinematography, music, narration by David McCullough, anecdotes and insights from authors such as Shelby Foote,[2] historians Barbara J. Fields, Ed Bearss, and Stephen B. Oates; and actors reading contemporary quotes from historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Chesnut, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Walt Whitman, Stonewall Jackson, and Frederick Douglass. A large cast of actors voiced correspondence, memoirs, news articles, and stood in for historical figures from the Civil War.
Burns also interviewed Daisy Turner, then a 104-year-old daughter of an ex-slave, whose poetry features prominently in the series. Turner died in February 1988, a full two and a half years before the series aired.
The film took five years to produce, longer than the four years it took to fight the Civil War, which lasted from April 12, 1861, when the Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter, South Carolina, until April 9, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.[3]
The film was co-produced by Ken's brother Ric Burns, written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ric Burns, edited by Paul Barnes with cinematography by Buddy Squires.
Music[edit]
The theme song of the documentary is the instrumental "Ashokan Farewell", which is heard twenty-five times during the film. The song was composed by Jay Ungar in 1982 and he describes it as "a Scottish lament written by a Jewish guy from the Bronx." It is the only modern piece of music heard in the film. It became so closely associated with the series that people frequently and erroneously believe it was a Civil War song. Ungar, his band Fiddle Fever and pianist Jacqueline Schwab performed this song and many of the other 19th century songs used in the film.[4][5] Schwab's arrangements in particular have been acclaimed by many experts. Musicologist Alexander Klein wrote: "Upon watching the full documentary, one is immediately struck by the lyricism of Schwab’s playing and, more importantly, her exceptional arranging skills. What had been originally rousing and at times bellicose songs such as the southern “Bonnie Blue Flag” or the northern “Battle Cry of Freedom” now suddenly sounded like heart-warming, lyrical melodies due to Schwab’s interpretations. The pianist not only changed the songs’ original mood but also allowed herself some harmonic liberties so as to make these century-old marching tunes into piano lamentations that contemporary audiences could fully identify with".[6]
A major piece of vocal music in the series is a version of the old spiritual "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder", performed a cappella by the African American singer, scholar and activist Bernice Johnson Reagon and several other female voices. The song appears on Reagon's album River of Life.
Voices[edit]
Narrated by David McCullough
Sam Waterston as Abraham Lincoln
Julie Harris as Mary Chesnut
Jason Robards as Ulysses S. Grant
Morgan Freeman as Frederick Douglass∗
Paul Roebling as Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Garrison Keillor as Walt Whitman∗
George Black as Robert E. Lee
Arthur Miller as William Tecumseh Sherman∗
Christopher Murney as Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Charley McDowell as Sam Watkins
Horton Foote as Jefferson Davis
George Plimpton as George Templeton Strong
Philip Bosco as Horace Greeley
Terry Courier as George B. McClellan
Jody Powell as Stonewall Jackson∗
Studs Terkel as Benjamin Butler∗
Hoyt Axton as various
John Hartford as various
Colleen Dewhurst as various
Shelby Foote as various
Ronnie Gilbert as various
Jeremy Irons as various
Derek Jacobi as various
Kurt Vonnegut as various
Laurence Fishburne as various, credited as Larry Fishburne
Pamela Reed as various
M. Emmet Walsh as various
∗ Indicates performer voiced other characters as well.
Sam Waterston, who voiced Abraham Lincoln here, later played Thomas Jefferson in Burns' films about Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 2011, Waterston made an appearance as a voiceover again in Burns' miniseries, Prohibition.
Episode list[edit]
Each episode was divided into numerous chapters or vignettes,[5] but each generally had a primary theme or focus (i.e., a specific battle or topic). The series followed a fairly consistent chronological order of history.


No.
Episode
Original air date

1
"The Cause" (1861) September 23, 1990[7]
All Night Forever; Are We Free?; A House Divided; The Meteor; Secessionitis; 4:30 a.m. April 12, 1861; Traitors and Patriots; Gun Men; Manassas; A Thousand Mile Front; Honorable Manhood
2
"A Very Bloody Affair" (1862) September 24, 1990[8]
Politics; Ironclads; Lincolnites; The Peninsula; Our Boy; Shiloh; The Arts of Death; Republics; On To Richmond
3
"Forever Free" (1862) September 24, 1990[8]
Stonewall; The Beast; The Seven Days; Kiss Daniel For Me; Saving the Union; Antietam; The Higher Object
4
"Simply Murder" (1863) September 25, 1990[9]
Northern Lights; Oh! Be Joyful; The Kingdom of Jones; Under the Shade of the Trees; A Dust-Covered Man
5
"The Universe of Battle" (1863) September 25, 1990[9]
Gettysburg: The First Day; Gettysburg: The Second Day; Gettysburg: The Third Day; She Ranks Me; Vicksburg; Bottom Rail On Top; The River of Death; A New Birth of Freedom
6
"Valley of the Shadow of Death" (1864) September 26, 1990[10]
Valley of the Shadow of Death; Grant; Lee; In the Wilderness; Move By the Left Flank; Now, Fix Me; The Remedy
7
"Most Hallowed Ground" (1864) September 26, 1990[10]
A Warm Place in the Field; Nathan Bedford Forrest; Summer, 1864; Spies; The Crater; Headquarters U.S.A.; The Promised Land; The Age of Shoddy; Can Those Be Men?; The People's Resolution; Most Hallowed Ground
8
"War Is All Hell" (1865) September 27, 1990[11]
Sherman's March; The Breath Of Emancipation; Died Of A Theory; Washington, March 4, 1865; I Want to See Richmond; Appomattox
9
"The Better Angels of Our Nature" (1865) September 27, 1990[11]
Assassination; Useless, Useless; Picklocks Of Biographers; Was It Not Real?
Reception and awards[edit]
The series has received more than 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, People's Choice Award, Peabody Award, duPont-Columbia Award, D.W. Griffith Award, and the US$50,000 Lincoln Prize, among dozens of others.
Enough historians were critical of the series that editor Robert Brent Toplin responded with a book in 1997 titled Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond which gives voice to several historians as well as responses from Ken Burns and others involved in the series' production.
2002 remastering[edit]
The entire series was digitally remastered in September 17, 2002 in VHS and DVD. The DVD release included a short documentary on how a Spirit DataCine was used to transfer and remaster the film.[12][13] The remastering was limited to producing an improved fullscreen SD digital video of the source 16mm film, for broadcast and DVD; no widescreen/HD/Blu-ray versions are available. The soundtrack was also remixed.
Paul Barnes, Editor & Post-Production Supervisor, Florentine Films at that time commented:
"Ken Burns and I decided to remaster The Civil War for several reasons. First of all when we completed the film in 1989, we were operating under a very tight schedule and budget. As the main editor on the film, I always wanted to go back and improve the overall quality of the film. The other reason for remastering the film at this time is that the technology to color correct, print and transfer a film to video for broadcast has vastly improved, especially in the realm of digital computer technology... We also were able to eliminate a great deal of the dust and dirt that often get embedded into 16mm film when it is printed."
Soundtrack[edit]
A soundtrack featuring songs from the miniseries, many of which were songs popular during the Civil War, has been released.

No.
Title
Artist(s)
Length

1. "Drums of War"   Old Bethpage Brass Band 0:10
2. "Oliver Wendell Holmes"   Paul Roebling 0:32
3. "Ashokan Farewell"   Jay Ungar, Matt Glasser, Evan Stover, Russ Barenburg, Molly Mason 4:05
4. "Battle Cry of Freedom"   Jacqueline Schwab 1:40
5. "We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder"   Bernice Johnson Reagan 4:27
6. "Dixie/Bonnie Blue Flag"   New American Brass Band 1:57
7. "Cheer Boys Cheer"   New American Brass Band 1:12
8. "Angel Band"   Barenburg, Jesse Carr 1:07
9. "Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier"   Schwab, Carr 1:44
10. "Lorena"   Ungar, Carr 1:44
11. "Parade"   New American Brass Band 3:30
12. "Hail, Columbia"   New American Brass Band 2:06
13. "Dixie (reprise, lament)"   Bobby Horton 2:06
14. "Kingdom Coming"   Glaser, Stover, Ungar, Art Baron, Mason 1:01
15. "Battle Hymn of the Republic"   Ungar, Schwab 1:38
16. "All Quiet on the Potomac"   Schwab 1:12
17. "Flag of Columbia"   Schwab 1:03
18. "Weeping Sad and Lonely"   Glasser, Schwab, Carr 1:10
19. "Yankee Doodle"   Old Bethpage Brass Band 0:41
20. "Palmyra Schottische"   New American Brass Band 3:30
21. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"   Old Bethpage Brass Band 0:45
22. "Shenandoah"   The First Bull Run [original] 0:47
23. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home (reprise)"   Ungar, Yonatin Malin, Schwab, Mason, Peter Amidon 1:00
24. "Marching Through Georgia"   Ungar, Mason, Amidon 0:57
25. "Marching Through Georgia (reprise, lament)"   Schwab 1:14
26. "Battle Cry of Freedom (reprise)"   Schwab 2:33
27. "Battle Hymn of the Republic (reprise)"   Abyssianian Baptist Choir 3:22
28. "Ashokan Farewall/Sullivan Ballou letter"   Ungar, Roebling, David McCullough 3:34
Funding[edit]
General Motors (1990; 2002)
National Endowment for the Humanities (1990; 2002)
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1990; 2002)
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (1990; 2002)
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1990; 2002)
Viewers Like You (2002)
Thank You (2002)
See also[edit]
Ashokan Farewell
Sullivan Ballou letter
The War (documentary) by Ken Burns
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ric; Burns, Ken (1992) [First published 1991]. The Civil War: An Illustrated History. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0679742777.
2.Jump up ^ "'Civil War' audience 'discovers' storyteller-writer Shelby Foote". TV Today (The Milwaukee Sentinel). September 25, 1990. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
3.Jump up ^ 'The Civil War': Ken Burns documentary airing on PBS for 150th anniversary of war
4.Jump up ^ Ashokan FAQ
5.^ Jump up to: a b Episode Descriptions retrieved 2009-11-02
6.Jump up ^ Alexander Klein, "Scoring Ken Burns' Civil War: An Interview with Pianist Jacqueline Schwab"Film Score Monthly, April 2013.
7.Jump up ^ "Sunday Prime Time Television Listings". The Milwaukee Sentinel. September 22, 1990. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
8.^ Jump up to: a b "Monday Prime Time Television Listings". The Milwaukee Sentinel. September 24, 1990. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
9.^ Jump up to: a b "Tuesday Prime Time Television Listings". The Milwaukee Sentinel. September 25, 1990. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
10.^ Jump up to: a b "Wednesday Prime Time Television Listings". The Milwaukee Sentinel. September 26, 1990. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
11.^ Jump up to: a b "Thursday Prime Time Television Listings". The Milwaukee Sentinel. September 27, 1990. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
12.Jump up ^ PBS Why we decided to Re-master the The Civil War
13.Jump up ^ Why we decided to remaster retrieved 2009-11-02.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has quotations related to: The Civil War (TV series)
PBS: The Civil War
The Civil War at the Internet Movie Database
Alexander Klein's interview with pianist Jacqueline Schwab


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The Civil War
Civil war.jpg
Genre
Documentary
Starring
David McCullough
Sam Waterston
Jason Robards
Julie Harris
Morgan Freeman
Garrison Keillor
Arthur Miller
George Plimpton
Country of origin
USA
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
9
Production

Running time
690 minutes/11 hours 30 minutes (9 episodes)
Production company(s)
American Documentaries Inc.
Kenneth Lauren Burns Productions
Distributor
PBS
Broadcast

Original channel
PBS
Picture format
1.33:1
Audio format
Mono
Original airing
September 23–27, 1990
The Civil War is a documentary film created by Ken Burns about the American Civil War. It was first broadcast on PBS on five consecutive nights from September 23 to 27, 1990. Approximately 40 million viewers watched it during its initial broadcast, making it the most-watched program ever to air on PBS. It was subsequently awarded more than 40 major television and film honors. The film was remastered on the twelfth anniversary of its release, and a book following the movie has also been released.[1] The nation was captivated by the film, which drew praise from President George H. W. Bush.


Contents  [hide]
1 Production 1.1 Music
1.2 Voices
2 Episode list
3 Reception and awards
4 2002 remastering
5 Soundtrack
6 Funding
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Production[edit]
Ken Burns was inspired to make this documentary because of Mathew Brady's photographs. More than 10 hours in length, the documentary has nine episodes that explore the Civil War through personal stories and photos. During the creation of the movie, Burns made extensive use of over 16,000 archival photographs, paintings, and newspaper images from the time of the war. The series' slow zooming and panning across the photos resulted in the coining of the term the "Ken Burns effect".
He combined these images with modern cinematography, music, narration by David McCullough, anecdotes and insights from authors such as Shelby Foote,[2] historians Barbara J. Fields, Ed Bearss, and Stephen B. Oates; and actors reading contemporary quotes from historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Chesnut, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Walt Whitman, Stonewall Jackson, and Frederick Douglass. A large cast of actors voiced correspondence, memoirs, news articles, and stood in for historical figures from the Civil War.
Burns also interviewed Daisy Turner, then a 104-year-old daughter of an ex-slave, whose poetry features prominently in the series. Turner died in February 1988, a full two and a half years before the series aired.
The film took five years to produce, longer than the four years it took to fight the Civil War, which lasted from April 12, 1861, when the Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter, South Carolina, until April 9, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.[3]
The film was co-produced by Ken's brother Ric Burns, written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ric Burns, edited by Paul Barnes with cinematography by Buddy Squires.
Music[edit]
The theme song of the documentary is the instrumental "Ashokan Farewell", which is heard twenty-five times during the film. The song was composed by Jay Ungar in 1982 and he describes it as "a Scottish lament written by a Jewish guy from the Bronx." It is the only modern piece of music heard in the film. It became so closely associated with the series that people frequently and erroneously believe it was a Civil War song. Ungar, his band Fiddle Fever and pianist Jacqueline Schwab performed this song and many of the other 19th century songs used in the film.[4][5] Schwab's arrangements in particular have been acclaimed by many experts. Musicologist Alexander Klein wrote: "Upon watching the full documentary, one is immediately struck by the lyricism of Schwab’s playing and, more importantly, her exceptional arranging skills. What had been originally rousing and at times bellicose songs such as the southern “Bonnie Blue Flag” or the northern “Battle Cry of Freedom” now suddenly sounded like heart-warming, lyrical melodies due to Schwab’s interpretations. The pianist not only changed the songs’ original mood but also allowed herself some harmonic liberties so as to make these century-old marching tunes into piano lamentations that contemporary audiences could fully identify with".[6]
A major piece of vocal music in the series is a version of the old spiritual "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder", performed a cappella by the African American singer, scholar and activist Bernice Johnson Reagon and several other female voices. The song appears on Reagon's album River of Life.
Voices[edit]
Narrated by David McCullough
Sam Waterston as Abraham Lincoln
Julie Harris as Mary Chesnut
Jason Robards as Ulysses S. Grant
Morgan Freeman as Frederick Douglass∗
Paul Roebling as Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Garrison Keillor as Walt Whitman∗
George Black as Robert E. Lee
Arthur Miller as William Tecumseh Sherman∗
Christopher Murney as Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Charley McDowell as Sam Watkins
Horton Foote as Jefferson Davis
George Plimpton as George Templeton Strong
Philip Bosco as Horace Greeley
Terry Courier as George B. McClellan
Jody Powell as Stonewall Jackson∗
Studs Terkel as Benjamin Butler∗
Hoyt Axton as various
John Hartford as various
Colleen Dewhurst as various
Shelby Foote as various
Ronnie Gilbert as various
Jeremy Irons as various
Derek Jacobi as various
Kurt Vonnegut as various
Laurence Fishburne as various, credited as Larry Fishburne
Pamela Reed as various
M. Emmet Walsh as various
∗ Indicates performer voiced other characters as well.
Sam Waterston, who voiced Abraham Lincoln here, later played Thomas Jefferson in Burns' films about Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 2011, Waterston made an appearance as a voiceover again in Burns' miniseries, Prohibition.
Episode list[edit]
Each episode was divided into numerous chapters or vignettes,[5] but each generally had a primary theme or focus (i.e., a specific battle or topic). The series followed a fairly consistent chronological order of history.


No.
Episode
Original air date

1
"The Cause" (1861) September 23, 1990[7]
All Night Forever; Are We Free?; A House Divided; The Meteor; Secessionitis; 4:30 a.m. April 12, 1861; Traitors and Patriots; Gun Men; Manassas; A Thousand Mile Front; Honorable Manhood
2
"A Very Bloody Affair" (1862) September 24, 1990[8]
Politics; Ironclads; Lincolnites; The Peninsula; Our Boy; Shiloh; The Arts of Death; Republics; On To Richmond
3
"Forever Free" (1862) September 24, 1990[8]
Stonewall; The Beast; The Seven Days; Kiss Daniel For Me; Saving the Union; Antietam; The Higher Object
4
"Simply Murder" (1863) September 25, 1990[9]
Northern Lights; Oh! Be Joyful; The Kingdom of Jones; Under the Shade of the Trees; A Dust-Covered Man
5
"The Universe of Battle" (1863) September 25, 1990[9]
Gettysburg: The First Day; Gettysburg: The Second Day; Gettysburg: The Third Day; She Ranks Me; Vicksburg; Bottom Rail On Top; The River of Death; A New Birth of Freedom
6
"Valley of the Shadow of Death" (1864) September 26, 1990[10]
Valley of the Shadow of Death; Grant; Lee; In the Wilderness; Move By the Left Flank; Now, Fix Me; The Remedy
7
"Most Hallowed Ground" (1864) September 26, 1990[10]
A Warm Place in the Field; Nathan Bedford Forrest; Summer, 1864; Spies; The Crater; Headquarters U.S.A.; The Promised Land; The Age of Shoddy; Can Those Be Men?; The People's Resolution; Most Hallowed Ground
8
"War Is All Hell" (1865) September 27, 1990[11]
Sherman's March; The Breath Of Emancipation; Died Of A Theory; Washington, March 4, 1865; I Want to See Richmond; Appomattox
9
"The Better Angels of Our Nature" (1865) September 27, 1990[11]
Assassination; Useless, Useless; Picklocks Of Biographers; Was It Not Real?
Reception and awards[edit]
The series has received more than 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, People's Choice Award, Peabody Award, duPont-Columbia Award, D.W. Griffith Award, and the US$50,000 Lincoln Prize, among dozens of others.
Enough historians were critical of the series that editor Robert Brent Toplin responded with a book in 1997 titled Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond which gives voice to several historians as well as responses from Ken Burns and others involved in the series' production.
2002 remastering[edit]
The entire series was digitally remastered in September 17, 2002 in VHS and DVD. The DVD release included a short documentary on how a Spirit DataCine was used to transfer and remaster the film.[12][13] The remastering was limited to producing an improved fullscreen SD digital video of the source 16mm film, for broadcast and DVD; no widescreen/HD/Blu-ray versions are available. The soundtrack was also remixed.
Paul Barnes, Editor & Post-Production Supervisor, Florentine Films at that time commented:
"Ken Burns and I decided to remaster The Civil War for several reasons. First of all when we completed the film in 1989, we were operating under a very tight schedule and budget. As the main editor on the film, I always wanted to go back and improve the overall quality of the film. The other reason for remastering the film at this time is that the technology to color correct, print and transfer a film to video for broadcast has vastly improved, especially in the realm of digital computer technology... We also were able to eliminate a great deal of the dust and dirt that often get embedded into 16mm film when it is printed."
Soundtrack[edit]
A soundtrack featuring songs from the miniseries, many of which were songs popular during the Civil War, has been released.

No.
Title
Artist(s)
Length

1. "Drums of War"   Old Bethpage Brass Band 0:10
2. "Oliver Wendell Holmes"   Paul Roebling 0:32
3. "Ashokan Farewell"   Jay Ungar, Matt Glasser, Evan Stover, Russ Barenburg, Molly Mason 4:05
4. "Battle Cry of Freedom"   Jacqueline Schwab 1:40
5. "We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder"   Bernice Johnson Reagan 4:27
6. "Dixie/Bonnie Blue Flag"   New American Brass Band 1:57
7. "Cheer Boys Cheer"   New American Brass Band 1:12
8. "Angel Band"   Barenburg, Jesse Carr 1:07
9. "Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier"   Schwab, Carr 1:44
10. "Lorena"   Ungar, Carr 1:44
11. "Parade"   New American Brass Band 3:30
12. "Hail, Columbia"   New American Brass Band 2:06
13. "Dixie (reprise, lament)"   Bobby Horton 2:06
14. "Kingdom Coming"   Glaser, Stover, Ungar, Art Baron, Mason 1:01
15. "Battle Hymn of the Republic"   Ungar, Schwab 1:38
16. "All Quiet on the Potomac"   Schwab 1:12
17. "Flag of Columbia"   Schwab 1:03
18. "Weeping Sad and Lonely"   Glasser, Schwab, Carr 1:10
19. "Yankee Doodle"   Old Bethpage Brass Band 0:41
20. "Palmyra Schottische"   New American Brass Band 3:30
21. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"   Old Bethpage Brass Band 0:45
22. "Shenandoah"   The First Bull Run [original] 0:47
23. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home (reprise)"   Ungar, Yonatin Malin, Schwab, Mason, Peter Amidon 1:00
24. "Marching Through Georgia"   Ungar, Mason, Amidon 0:57
25. "Marching Through Georgia (reprise, lament)"   Schwab 1:14
26. "Battle Cry of Freedom (reprise)"   Schwab 2:33
27. "Battle Hymn of the Republic (reprise)"   Abyssianian Baptist Choir 3:22
28. "Ashokan Farewall/Sullivan Ballou letter"   Ungar, Roebling, David McCullough 3:34
Funding[edit]
General Motors (1990; 2002)
National Endowment for the Humanities (1990; 2002)
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1990; 2002)
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (1990; 2002)
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1990; 2002)
Viewers Like You (2002)
Thank You (2002)
See also[edit]
Ashokan Farewell
Sullivan Ballou letter
The War (documentary) by Ken Burns
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ric; Burns, Ken (1992) [First published 1991]. The Civil War: An Illustrated History. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0679742777.
2.Jump up ^ "'Civil War' audience 'discovers' storyteller-writer Shelby Foote". TV Today (The Milwaukee Sentinel). September 25, 1990. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
3.Jump up ^ 'The Civil War': Ken Burns documentary airing on PBS for 150th anniversary of war
4.Jump up ^ Ashokan FAQ
5.^ Jump up to: a b Episode Descriptions retrieved 2009-11-02
6.Jump up ^ Alexander Klein, "Scoring Ken Burns' Civil War: An Interview with Pianist Jacqueline Schwab"Film Score Monthly, April 2013.
7.Jump up ^ "Sunday Prime Time Television Listings". The Milwaukee Sentinel. September 22, 1990. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
8.^ Jump up to: a b "Monday Prime Time Television Listings". The Milwaukee Sentinel. September 24, 1990. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
9.^ Jump up to: a b "Tuesday Prime Time Television Listings". The Milwaukee Sentinel. September 25, 1990. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
10.^ Jump up to: a b "Wednesday Prime Time Television Listings". The Milwaukee Sentinel. September 26, 1990. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
11.^ Jump up to: a b "Thursday Prime Time Television Listings". The Milwaukee Sentinel. September 27, 1990. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
12.Jump up ^ PBS Why we decided to Re-master the The Civil War
13.Jump up ^ Why we decided to remaster retrieved 2009-11-02.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has quotations related to: The Civil War (TV series)
PBS: The Civil War
The Civil War at the Internet Movie Database
Alexander Klein's interview with pianist Jacqueline Schwab


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Films of Ken Burns


Films
Brooklyn Bridge (1981) ·
 The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984) ·
 The Statue of Liberty (1985) ·
 Huey Long (1985) ·
 The Congress (1988) ·
 The Civil War (1990) ·
 Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991) ·
 Baseball (1994) ·
 The West (1996) ·
 Thomas Jefferson (1997) ·
 Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997) ·
 Not for Ourselves Alone (1999) ·
 Jazz (2001) ·
 Mark Twain (2001) ·
 Horatio's Drive (2003) ·
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See also
Ken Burns effect
 



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Categories: Documentary films about the American Civil War
American Civil War TV series
PBS network shows
American documentary television series
Films directed by Ken Burns
1990 in American television
Documentary television series about war
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
Peabody Award winning television programs




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