The Civil War. Disc 1, 1861, the Cause

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Originally produced in 1989 and broadcast in 1990 as episode one of a nine-program television mini-series.
Special features: commentary ; battlefield maps ; Civil War challenge, 1861 ; Civil War biographies.
Prologue -- 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 -- Credits.
Features historians: Shelby Foote, Barbara Fields ; voices: Sam Waterston, Julie Harris, Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman, George Plimpton, Garrison Keillor, Studs Terkel, Horton Foote ; narrator: David McCullough.
Ken Burns' Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The "Civil War" is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president, and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
"The stage is set for war as the nation begins to tear apart. Opposition by the North to slavery in the South fuels a bitter debate, and the country wrestles with conflicts between the Union and states' rights. Commanding center stage are towering figures - Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E Lee. From Harper's Ferry to Fort Sumter, the first chapters unfold in a conflict from which there will be no turning back."--Container.
DVD, region 1, NTSC; full screen presentation; 5.1 surround.

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