The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns
a.k.a. Ken Burns Civil War
Director:
Ken Burns
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- DVD Release Date: 09/28/2004
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- Sales Rank: 43
Features
Closed Caption; Behind the scenes: the civil war reconstruction; Commentary by Ken Burns; Additional interviews with Ken Burns, Shelby Foote, George Will and Stanley Crouch; Biography Cards; Battlefield Maps; Civil war challenge; Ken Burns: making history; A conversation with Ken Burns
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Disc #1 -- Civil War
1. Prologue [12:32]
2. All Night Forever [6:41]
3. Are We Free? [4:29]
4. A House Divided [4:09]
5. The Meteor [4:59]
6. Secessionitis [9:48]
7. 4:30 a.m. April 12, 1861 [4:38]
8. Traitors and Patriots [4:59]
9. Gun Men [4:45]
10. Manassas [7:19]
11. A Thousand Mile Front [8:03]
12. Honorable Manhood [11:49]
13. Credits [7:09]
Disc #2 -- Civil War
1. Prologue [8:54]
2. Politics [5:11]
3. Ironclads [4:58]
4. Licolnites [3:37]
5. The Peninsula [4:57]
6. Our Boy [4:20]
7. Shiloh [12:01]
8. The Arts of Death [3:04]
9. Republics [7:02]
10. On to Richmond [3:20]
11. Credits [6:17]
1. Prologue [5:35]
2. Stonewall [5:24]
3. The Beast [3:03]
4. The Seven Days [2:48]
5. Kiss Daniel For Me [7:33]
6. Saving the Union [3:18]
7. Antietam [4:34]
8. The Higher Object [12:30]
9. Credits [17:32]
Disc #3 -- Civil War
1. Prologue [8:19]
2. Northern Lights [13:19]
3. Oh! Be Joyful [9:53]
4. The Kingdom of Jones [:23]
5. Under the Shade of Trees [9:44]
6. A Dust-Covered Man [:42]
7. Credits [9:10]
1. Prologue [4:25]
2. Gettysburg: The First Day [6:30]
3. Gettysburg: The Second Dad [5:33]
4. Gettysburg: The Third Day [9:39]
5. She Ranks Me [6:16]
6. Vicksburg [2:13]
7. Bottom Rail on Top [17:17]
8. The River of Death [4:15]
9. A New Birth of Freedom [3:52]
10. Credits [13:31]
Disc #4 -- Civil War
1. Prologue [8:19]
2. Grant [13:19]
3. Lee [9:53]
4. In the Wilderness [:23]
5. Move by the Left Flank [9:44]
6. Now, Fix-Me [:42]
7. The Remedy [9:10]
1. Prologue [4:25]
2. A Warm Place in the Field [6:30]
3. Nathan Bedford Forrest [5:33]
4. Summer, 1864 [9:39]
5. Spies [6:16]
6. The Crater [2:13]
7. Headquarters, U.S.A. [17:17]
8. The Promised Land [4:15]
9. The Age of Shoddy [3:52]
10. Can Those Be Men? [13:31]
Disc #5 -- Civil War
1. Prologue [8:19]
2. Sherman's March [13:19]
3. The Breath of Emancipation [9:53]
4. Died of a Theory [:23]
5. Washington, March 4, 1865 [9:44]
6. I Want to See Richmond [:42]
7. Appomattox [9:10]
1. Prologue [4:25]
2. Assassination [6:30]
3. Useless, Useless [5:33]
4. The Picklocks of Biographers [9:39]
5. Was it Not Real? [6:16]
6. Credits [2:13]
Editorial Reviews
War may be hell, but it can make for great television, as Ken Burns proves in his masterful 11-hour PBS series chronicling the deadliest war in American military history. The Civil War was a landmark TV event that held record numbers of viewers riveted to their screens and reinvented the documentary form. Taking full advantage of the fact that the Civil War was the first war to be captured extensively on camera, Burns synthesizes evocative archival photographs (among them, Matthew Brady's emblematic images of Union soldiers) with diverse and illuminating narrative voices. Well-known actors read diary entries, letters from the front, official dispatches, and speeches from the era. These voice-over readings convey the full range of human fears and hopes of those shaping and being shaped by the war, while an engaging group of historians (most notably Shelby Foote) provide historical perspective. The result is a seamless collage that illuminates, with quiet nobility, this most painful chapter in our nation's past. It's been said that history belongs to the victors; like Homer before him, Burns demonstrates that a major chunk of it belongs to the best storytellers Emily Fisher, Barnes & Noble
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