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Title The Civil War [videorecording] / American Documentaries, Inc., Florentine Films and Time-Life Video presents a film by Ken Burns ; producers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns ; writers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward ; director, Ken Burns.

Imprint Burbank, Calif. : PBS Home Video : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, [2004], c1990.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  973.7 C499 2004  Disc 1    ---  Available
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  973.7 C499 2004  Disc 2    ---  Available
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  973.7 C499 2004  Disc 5    ---  Available
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  973.7 C499 2004  Disc 3    ---  Available
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  973.7 C499 2004  Disc 4    ---  Available
Edition Full screen version.
Description 5 videodiscs (700 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, 5.1 surround sound, digitally remastered.
Language Closed-captioned.
Performer Narrator: David McCullough ; voices: Hoyt Axton, Colleen Dewhurst, Laurence Fishburne, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Jason Robards, Sam Waterston.
Credits Cinematographers, Ken Burns, Buddy Squires ; editors, Paul Barnes, Tricia Reidy, Bruce Shaw.
Note Originally produced as a television mini-series in 1990.
Audience MPAA rating: Not rated.
Summary An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
Awards Emmy Awards, 1991: Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming (Geoffrey C. Ward (writer), Ric Burns (writer), Ken Burns (writer) - For episode #9: "The Better Angels Of Our Nature") ; Outstanding Informational Series (Ken Burns (producer), Ric Burns (producer), Stephen Ives (co-producer), Julie Dunfey (co-producer), Mike Hill (co-producer), Catherine Eisele (coordinating producer) - For episode #5 "The Universe Of Battle").
Note Special features: behind-the-scenes: "The Civil War Reconstruction" ; commentary track by Ken Burns ; interviews with George Will, Shelby Foote and Stanley Crouch ; biography cards and battlefield maps.
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Confederate States of America -- History, Military.
Military art and science -- History.
DVD-Video discs.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Virginia, 1861.
Genre/Form Historical television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Television mini-series.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Burns, Ken, 1953-
Burns, Ric.
Dewhurst, Colleen, 1924-1991.
Fishburne, Laurence, 1961-
Freeman, Morgan.
Irons, Jeremy, 1948-
Jacobi, Derek.
Robards, Jason, 1922-2000.
Waterston, Sam.
Shaw, Bruce.
Axton, Hoyt.
Ward, Geoffrey C.
McCullough, David G.
American Documentary, Inc.
Florentine Films.
Time-Life Video.
PBS Home Video.
Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
ISBN 1415702470
9781415702475
Standard No. 097368858244
Music No. 88582 PBS Home Video
Standard No. NZ1 10806120

 
    
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