The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction ... taken from a total of 1 million pictures of the Civil War, along ...

The book will be released five days ahead of its documentary counterpart by the same name, a six-part series on PBS ...

The year 1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves. Episode Two begins with the political infighting ...

Choose from the following options to learn about the people, places and events surrounding the Civil War. Explore each episode and watch clips from the film.

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

He previously worked with Ken Burns on The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014) and The Vietnam War (2017) for which he won the Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year award. He has ...

One of the techniques filmmaker Ken Burns harnessed so effectively in The Civil War was using the actual historical record—photographs, diaries, speeches—to "let the war tell its own story." ...

Grant's memoirs, completed only days before his death, are considered among the best of any written about the Civil War.