Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~76 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 9 episodes
- Status
- Miniseries
- Age rating
- TV-14
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
The story
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
- civil war
- slavery
- miniseries
- american civil war
- 19th century
- american historical foundation
- american history
- war documentary
- historical documentary
- historical events
The bill
- Morgan Freeman
- Paul Roebling
- Garrison Keillor
- George Black
- Arthur Miller
- Christopher Murney
- Charles McDowell
- Horton Foote
- George Plimpton
- Philip Bosco
- Terry Courier
- Directed
- Ken Burns
- Written
- Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 130 ratings
- Network & studio
- PBS, Florentine Films, American Documentary Films Inc., Kenneth Lauren Burns, WETA, Time-Life Video
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
