September 23, 1990 • 1h 40m
Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton King...Read more
September 24, 1990 • 1h 9m
1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the sl...Read more
September 24, 1990 • 1h 17m
This episode charts the dramatic events that led to Lincoln's decision to set the slaves free. Convinced by July 1862 that emancip...Read more
September 25, 1990 • 1h 3m
The nightmarish Union disaster at Fredericksburg comes to two climaxes that spring: at Chancellorsville in May, where Lee wins his...Read more
September 25, 1990 • 1h 37m
This episode opens with a dramatic account of the turning point of war: the Battle of Gettysburg, the greatest ever fought in the ...Read more
September 26, 1990 • 1h 11m
Episode six begins with a biographical comparison of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and then chronicles the extraordinary seri...Read more
September 26, 1990 • 1h 13m
The episode begins with the presidential election of 1864 that sets Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McC...Read more
September 27, 1990 • 1h 10m
The episode begins with William Tecumseh Sherman's brilliant march to the sea, which brings the war to the heart of Georgia and th...Read more
September 27, 1990 • 1h 10m
This extraordinary final episode of The Civil War begins in the bittersweet aftermath of Lee's surrender and then goes on to narra...Read more