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Original Release
09/24/1990
US Release
09/24/1990
Cast
Name | Character |
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David McCullough | Self - Narrator / Narrator |
Barbara Fields | Self - Historian |
Shelby Foote | Self - Writer / Various |
William Safire | Self - Journalist |
Ed Bearss | Self - Historian |
Sam Waterston | Abraham Lincoln / President Abraham Lincoln |
Julie Harris | Mary Chestnut |
Jason Robards | Ulysses S. Grant |
Morgan Freeman | Frederick Douglass / John Boston |
Paul Roebling | Joshua L. Chamberlain / Various / Joshua Chamberlain |
Directors
Writers
Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns, Ric Burns
Cast
Name | Character |
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David McCullough | Self - Narrator / Narrator |
Barbara Fields | Self - Historian |
Shelby Foote | Self - Writer / Various |
William Safire | Self - Journalist |
Ed Bearss | Self - Historian |
Sam Waterston | Abraham Lincoln / President Abraham Lincoln |
Julie Harris | Mary Chestnut |
Jason Robards | Ulysses S. Grant |
Morgan Freeman | Frederick Douglass / John Boston |
Paul Roebling | Joshua L. Chamberlain / Various / Joshua Chamberlain |
Garrison Keillor | Walt Whitman |
George Black | Robert E. Lee |
Arthur Miller | William Tecumseh Sherman |
Christopher Murney | Pvt. Elijah Hunt Rhodes / Elisha Hunt Rhodes |
Charles McDowell | Pvt. Sam Watkins / Samuel R. Watkins |
Horton Foote | Jefferson Davis |
George Plimpton | George Templeton Strong |
Philip Bosco | Horace Greeley |
Terry Courier | George McClellan / George B. McClellan |
Jody Powell | Stonewall Jackson / Various |