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The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns
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Table of Contents
From the eVideo
Wilmer McLean: First and Last Witness of the American Civil War (0:48)
America Transformed: A Photo-montage (3:01)
Major Figures of Civil War (2:01)
America Between 1861-1865: A New Birth (0:44)
Civil War Veterans (1:01)
Writer Shelby Foote (0:51)
Ideals of the Civil War (0:28)
Abraham Lincoln: 1837 (0:47)
1861: America the Beautiful? (2:06)
Life As A Slave (3:44)
Slave Rebellion (0:45)
Legacy of the American Revolution (1:21)
The Cotton Gin (0:54)
William Lloyd Garrison (0:49)
Abolition Movement (0:54)
Resistance to Abolition: John C. Calhoun (0:40)
Alexis de Tocqueville: North and South Divided (0:35)
Abolitionists Victimized by Mob Violence (1:25)
Abraham Lincoln: An Introduction (1:52)
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 (0:25)
Dred Scott Case (0:55)
Violence on The Senate Floor: The Brooks Sumner Affair (0:57)
John Brown: Harpers Ferry (5:02)
Republicans: A New Party (1:29)
The Election of 1860 (52:02)
George Templeton Strong: A Personal Account of the Civil War (58:45)
Southern Secession (1:50)
Fort Sumter (50:47)
Jefferson Davis and The Confederate Cabinet (3:08)
Mary Chestnut: An American Diarist (1:09)
Lincoln: From Springfield to D.C. (2:00)
Lincoln's Inauguration (37:22)
Fort Sumter: The First Battle of the Civil War (34:50)
Civil War:Union Patriots (6:12)
Southern Soldiers (3:38)
Robert E. Lee (1:52)
Union Army Prepares for War (4:47)
Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus (2:22)
Fugitive Slave Act (1:15)
Manassas:First Civil War (4:12)
Stonewall Jackson (1:59)
Battle Wounds (5:05)
General George McClellan (5:01)
Civil War: Northern Defeats (2:53)
Civil War Letter Home (3:54)
From the eVideo
Battle Hymn of the Republic: Anthem of the Union (1:16)
A Nation Torn in Two (2:29)
Lincoln's Cause Becomes Clear (1:08)
A Union Soldier's Story (1:21)
Chains of Command (1:32)
Mud, Mud, Mud: Washington D.C. 1862 (1:10)
A Team of Rivals: Lincoln's Executive Cabinet (1:08)
General George McClellan (2:40)
Death of Lincoln's Son (1:18)
Ironclads (3:18)
Epic Battle of Ironclads (1:41)
Lincolnites (3:11)
Peninsula Campaign (3:01)
Preparing for the Siege of Yorktown (2:20)
Life of the Average Soldier (4:08)
Encampment at Pittsburgh Landing (2:11)
Gen. Johnston Attacks (2:02)
Hornet's Nest (2:37)
Battle of Shiloh (4:47)
Arts of Death (3:39)
Relieved of Command (2:20)
Frederick Douglass (1:47)
Union Naval Strategy (2:55)
Confederate War Effort (3:21)
Civil War Balloons (1:20)
McClellan Moves on to Richmond (3:24)
Slavery: The Guilty Cause (1:25)
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Civil War Photographers (1:29)
Trouble for the Union (1:53)
Changing Tactics (1:32)
General Stonewall Jackson (3:03)
Jackson's Valley Campaign (1:39)
Southern Cotton (1:18)
General Benjamin Butler: Butler the Beast (1:56)
Unrest Among the Slaves (3:53)
Robert E. Lee Takes Charge (3:00)
Seven Days: Lee and McClellan Battle (2:09)
McClellan Retreats (2:27)
A New Canaan: Former Slaves Taste Freedom (3:14)
We Regret to Inform You: Notification of Death (1:46)
Northern Occupation (1:21)
Emancipation (1:27)
Second Battle of Bull Run (3:23)
Horrors of Civil War (2:53)
Lincoln's Letter to Horace Greeley (1:06)
Lee's Battle Plans Discovered (2:48)
Robert E. Lee Moves to Antietam (2:17)
Battle of Antietam (4:07)
Lee's Second Line (7:43)
Aftermath of Antietam (5:41)
Grant Fails at Vicksburg (1:41)
The Emancipation Proclamation (4:01)
Righteous Decree (3:26)
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Rebel Yell (1:38)
Overview of 1863 (3:21)
Winter Camp: The Union's Valley Forge (3:12)
Ambrose Burnside (2:16)
Union Suicide: The Battle of Fredericksburg (5:14)
Northern Lights and Union Defeat (2:10)
Battered Union Army (1:34)
Winter of 1863 (2:06)
Rice and Worms: A Civil War Diet (4:03)
John Singleton Moseby (1:15)
Free Blacks and Former Slaves Take Arms (1:43)
Lincoln's Unpopularity (1:40)
Copperheads (1:37)
Suffering South (3:45)
Bread Riot and Slave March (1:13)
Deserters (1:32)
Civil War Music (3:08)
An Agreement Between Sides (0:43)
Lincoln Appoints Joseph Hooker (2:09)
The Confederate Sweep: Battle of Chancellorsville (4:47)
The Death of Stonewall (2:12)
In Search of a General (2:19)
Vicksburg (2:39)
A Bolder Plan: Forcing Grant North (1:01)
From the eVideo
Emblematic Civil War Photograph (0:51)
Battle of Luka: Acoustic Shadow (0:28)
Civil War: Summer of 1863 (3:56)
Alex Turner (1:15)
Cavalry Engagement Standoff (1:17)
Lee's Advance Column (2:59)
A Clash Over Shoes: Gettysburg (2:15)
Union Holds High Ground (2:45)
Letters Home (0:30)
Gettysburg: Second Day (2:56)
Big and Little Round Tops (3:49)
Chamberlain's Tactic (2:01)
Gettysburg: A Perfect Hell (4:48)
Victory Unknown (2:23)
George Pickett (3:57)
Fight to the Death (5:48)
Carnage of Gettysburg (6:06)
North and South Grieve (3:36)
Women in War (4:14)
Grant's Siege (3:53)
First Draft Call (3:34)
Draft Riots in New York City (1:29)
Powerful Ally: 54th Massachusetts Regiment (4:54)
William Harvey Carney (3:32)
Battle of Chickamauga (2:48)
George Henry Thomas and Tattered Troops (1:19)
Battle Above the Clouds: Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge (3:37)
Photographs on Union Mountain (1:11)
Winter of 1863: A Religious Age (2:51)
Soldiers' National Cemetery (3:29)
Gettysburg Address: A New Birth of Freedom (2:30)
From the eVideo
Walt Whitman on the War (1:21)
Almanac of 1864 (2:00)
Election of 1864: Referendum on the War (2:02)
General Grant Goes to Washington (3:07)
Ulysses S. Grant: Life Before the War (3:11)
Grant the General (3:34)
General Robert E. Lee: Background (3:00)
General Robert E. Lee: Important at Beginning of Civil War (2:27)
General Grant's Army (3:14)
Waiting in the Wilderness (2:52)
Clash in The Wilderness (3:09)
Grant's Useless Battle (2:00)
General Grant: Orders to March (2:25)
Battle of Spotsylvania (1:45)
Battle Line Moves to Richmond (2:31)
Battle of Cold Harbor (2:03)
Grant Fights to Win (2:29)
Grant Tricks Lee (2:17)
Siege of Petersburg (3:59)
Civil War Hospitals (2:49)
Dorothea Dix (1:28)
Preparing for Death (2:23)
William Tecumseh Sherman (3:19)
Sherman's Campaign (2:41)
Kennesaw Mountain (2:31)
From the eVideo
Nathan Bedford Forrest. (1:02)
Stalled Outside Petersburg (3:05)
Wild For Peace (1:43)
Election of 1864 (1:08)
Siege at Petersburg (3:12)
Nathan Bedford Forrest: Master of Lightening Raid (3:51)
North's Darkest Hour (1:45)
Campaign of 1864 (2:05)
Lincoln Doubts Re-election (0:57)
Spies (3:07)
Tunnel of Death (3:29)
Depths of Misery: Letter from an Ironclad (2:31)
Army Headquarters (2:34)
Promised Land: Equal Pay (1:10)
Damn the Torpedoes: Union Admiral David Farragut (0:46)
Atlanta: Sherman Arrives (2:47)
Battle of Atlanta: Hood Withdraws (2:54)
Atlanta Under Siege (2:12)
Sherman's Atlanta: Archival Photos (0:59)
Sherman's March (1:39)
South Responds (1:21)
War Profiteers (3:34)
Bloody Bill Anderson (0:39)
Prisoners of War (3:14)
Mass Graves: Living Dead (2:18)
Bad News for Confederates (2:35)
Lincoln is Re-elected (2:11)
Signs of Dissolution (2:07)
Thanksgiving (1:10)
John Wilkes Booth (0:57)
Never Ending List of Dead (2:05)
Arlington National Cemetery (1:58)
From the eVideo
Civil War: Southern Defeat (2:01)
Almanac of 1865 (3:31)
Sherman's Cruel War (1:41)
Sherman's March (2:54)
Sherman's Path of Destruction (4:38)
Battle of Franklin (1:38)
Battle of Nashville (1:51)
The Breath Of Emancipation (1:42)
Lost Army (3:46)
Wolf at the Door: Starvation (2:26)
Slaves as Soldiers (1:42)
Inauguration Day 1865 (3:58)
John Wilkes Booth (1:53)
Lincoln Outlines Plans for Peace (1:06)
Grant Conquers Petersburg (1:29)
Lee's Last Advance (1:48)
Jefferson Flees and Richmond Burns (4:29)
Free at Last (3:12)
Quiet Moment for Lincoln (0:43)
Lee Moves West (2:45)
Lee Surrenders (3:28)
Appomattox (4:50)
Terms of Surrender (2:56)
Formal Surrender (2:26)
End of the Civil War (1:08)
From the eVideo
Meaning of the Civil War (2:34)
April 1865: War is Over (4:04)
North Celebrates End of War (1:35)
Defeated South (3:12)
Ceremony at Fort Sumter (1:52)
Assassination of President Lincoln (2:51)
Death of President Lincoln (2:51)
News of Assassination Spreads (1:36)
Reaction of Former Slaves to Lincoln's Death (0:37)
Lincoln's Funeral Train (4:41)
John Wilkes Booth: Captured and Killed (0:33)
Jefferson Davis Is Arrested (2:15)
Last Man Killed in Civil War (0:26)
Union Victory Parade (1:23)
Casualties of War (1:08)
Execution of Booth's Conspirators (1:34)
Walt Whitman (0:43)
War's Heavy Toll (3:07)
Monuments of the War (0:43)
Elisha Hunt Rhodes: Union Soldier (1:26)
Sam Watkins: Confederate Soldier (1:47)
William Tecumseh Sherman and Joe Johnston (1:05)
Mary Chesnut: An American Diarist (0:54)
Jefferson Davis and Hiram Rhodes Revels (0:30)
Fates of the Civil War's Major Figures (2:55)
Fates of the Civil War's Major Figures (1:42)
Robert E. Lee Dies (3:00)
U. S. Grant Becomes President (1:49)
Reunion of the Battle of Gettysburg (1:09)
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Dies of War Wounds in 1914 (1:10)
Civil War Becomes Testament to Human Spirit (2:38)
Emancipated Slaves (0:59)
Legacy of Civil War (2:28)
Two Sides Under One Flag: Veterans Unite (2:48)
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Subjects
Subjects
Civil War, 1861-1865
Documentary television programs
Documentary television programs -- United States
Douglass, Frederick
Douglass, Frederick, -- 1818-1895
Educational films
Harpers Ferry, Battle of, Harpers Ferry, W. Va., 1862
Historical television programs
History
Internet videos
Lee, Robert E
Lee, Robert E. -- (Robert Edward), -- 1807-1870
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1744-1786
Manassas (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Reconstruction (U.S.history, 1865-1877)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Videorecording
Video recordings
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Documentary television programs
Documentary television programs -- United States
Douglass, Frederick
Douglass, Frederick, -- 1818-1895
Educational films
Harpers Ferry, Battle of, Harpers Ferry, W. Va., 1862
Historical television programs
History
Internet videos
Lee, Robert E
Lee, Robert E. -- (Robert Edward), -- 1807-1870
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1744-1786
Manassas (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Reconstruction (U.S.history, 1865-1877)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Videorecording
Video recordings
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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Contributors
American Documentary, Inc
Axton, Hoyt
Burns, Ken,1953
Burns, Ric
Dewhurst, Colleen
Axton, Hoyt
Burns, Ken,1953
Burns, Ric
Dewhurst, Colleen
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Fishburne, Laurence,III,1961
Florentine Films
Freeman, Morgan
Infobase
Irons, Jeremy,1948
Jacobi, Derek
McCullough, David G
PBS Home Video
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Robards, Jason
Shaw, Bruce,1941
Time-Life Video
Ward, Geoffrey C
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Waterston, Sam
Fishburne, Laurence,III,1961
Florentine Films
Freeman, Morgan
Infobase
Irons, Jeremy,1948
Jacobi, Derek
McCullough, David G
PBS Home Video
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Robards, Jason
Shaw, Bruce,1941
Time-Life Video
Ward, Geoffrey C
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Waterston, Sam
ISBN
9780780638877
9781415702475
9781415702475
UPC
794054868920
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