The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

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.

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For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars agree, that deserves better. “It fell to black sergeants to keep the unit organized ...

Like the "Civil War" documentary before it, this multi-part series from PBS is both gripping and illuminating, explaining nearly as much about our culture today as it depicts a war of 50 years ago.