Title:
The Civil War [dvd videorecording]
Author:
Burns, Ken, 1953-
ISBN:
9781608834020
Edition:
Commemorative ed. 150th anniversary.
Publication Information:
[United States] : PBS Home Video, c2011.
Physical Description:
6 videodiscs (660 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
General Note:
Title from container.
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.
Contents:
Cause (episode 1, 99 min.) 1861 -- Very bloody affair (episode 2, 72:05 min.) ; Forever free (episode 3, 72:05 min.) 1862 -- Simply murder (episode 4, 78:.05 min.) ; Universe of battle Valley of the shadow of death (episode 6, 71 min.) ; Most hallowed ground (episode 7, 71 min.) 1864 -- War is all hell (episode 8, 78:05 min.) ; Better angels of our nature (episode 9, 78:05 min.) 1865 -- Bonus disc. (100 min.)
Abstract:
Ken Burns's 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.
Reading Level:
Rating: Not rated.
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Civil war DVD.