Ended · 1990

The Civil War

War / History

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible. What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.

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Season 1 · 10 episodes

S01 E01 · The Cause (1861)1990-09-23
S01 E02 · A Very Bloody Affair (1862)1990-09-24
S01 E03 · Forever Free (1862)1990-09-24
S01 E04 · Simply Murder (1863)1990-09-25
S01 E05 · The Universe of Battle (1863)1990-09-25
S01 E06 · Valley of the Shadow of Death (1864)1990-09-26
S01 E07 · Most Hallowed Ground (1864)1990-09-26
S01 E08 · War Is All Hell (1865)1990-09-27
S01 E09 · The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865)1990-09-27
S01 Special · Ken Burns: The Civil War2015-08-08

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