The Civil War is a 1990 American television documentary miniseries created by Ken Burns about the American Civil War. It was the first broadcast to air on PBS for five consecutive nights, from September 23 to 27, 1990.
More than 39 million viewers tuned in to at least one episode, and viewership averaged more than 14 million viewers each evening, making it the most-watched program ever to air on PBS.
Episode list
Each episode was divided into numerous chapters or vignettes, but each generally had a primary theme or focus (i.e., a specific battle or topic). The series followed a fairly consistent chronological order of history.
| No. | Episode | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | “The Cause” (1861) | September 23, 1990[7] |
| All Night Forever; Are We Free?; A House Divided; The Meteor; Secessionitis; 4:30 a.m. April 12, 1861; Traitors and Patriots; Gun Men; Manassas; A Thousand Mile Front; Honorable Manhood | ||
| 2 | “A Very Bloody Affair” (1862) | September 24, 1990[8] |
| Politics; Ironclads; Lincolnites; The Peninsula; Our Boy; Shiloh; The Arts of Death; Republics; On To Richmond | ||
| 3 | “Forever Free” (1862) | September 24, 1990[8] |
| Stonewall; The Beast; The Seven Days; Kiss Daniel For Me; Saving the Union; Antietam; The Higher Object | ||
| 4 | “Simply Murder” (1863) | September 25, 1990[9] |
| Northern Lights; Oh! Be Joyful; The Kingdom of Jones; Under the Shade of the Trees; A Dust-Covered Man | ||
| 5 | “The Universe of Battle” (1863) | September 25, 1990[9] |
| Gettysburg: The First Day; Gettysburg: The Second Day; Gettysburg: The Third Day; She Ranks Me; Vicksburg; Bottom Rail On Top; The River of Death; A New Birth of Freedom | ||
| 6 | “Valley of the Shadow of Death” (1864) | September 26, 1990[10] |
| Valley of the Shadow of Death; Grant; Lee; In the Wilderness; Move By the Left Flank; Now, Fix Me; The Remedy | ||
| 7 | “Most Hallowed Ground” (1864) | September 26, 1990[10] |
| A Warm Place in the Field; Nathan Bedford Forrest; Summer, 1864; Spies; The Crater; Headquarters U.S.A.; The Promised Land; The Age of Shoddy; Can Those Be Men?; The People’s Resolution; Most Hallowed Ground | ||
| 8 | “War Is All Hell” (1865) | September 27, 1990[11] |
| Sherman’s March; The Breath Of Emancipation; Died Of A Theory; Washington, March 4, 1865; I Want to See Richmond; Appomattox | ||
| 9 | “The Better Angels of Our Nature” (1865) | September 27, 1990[11] |
| Assassination; Useless, Useless; Picklocks Of Biographers; Was It Not Real? | ||
from Wikipedia
2021 – 1, 2, 3
Watched 1 + 2 June 2013
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