ISBN: 9781531702007

Description:

• 6 videodiscs (approximately 11 hr.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 17 cm)
• 4 3/4 in.
• digital optical surround Dolby Digital 5.1
• digital optical stereo Dolby Digital 2.0
• widescreen (16x9) 24 fps
• NTSC
• video file DVD video Region 1

Target Audience Note:

• MPAA: TV-PG.
• CHVR: Not rated.

Other Title:

• Ken Burns' The Civil War [DVD]
• Civil War (Television program)

Notes:

• Title from disc surface.
• Originally broadcast on television by PBS as a television mini-series in 1990.
• "Fully restored"--Box.
• Special features: Making The Civil War: 25 years later; Restoring The Civil War; Complete high definition Shelby Foote interviews; Shelby Foote interview (2002); Remembering The Civil War: interview with Ken Burns; The Civil War in the classroom. Collector's booklet with bonus historical information and a letter from Ken Burns.
• Editors, Paul Barnes, Tricia Reidy, Bruce Shaw ; cinematographers, Ken Burns, Buddy Squires, Allen Moore ; restoration producer, Daniel J. White ; restoration associate producer, Christopher Darling.
• Narrator: David McCullough ; voices: Hoyt Axton, Colleen Dewhurst, Laurence Fishburne, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Jason Robards, Sam Waterston.
• DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen (16x9) presentation; 5.1 surround (Discs 1-5), 2.0 stereo (Disc 6).
• Emmy Awards, 1991: Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming (Geoffrey C. Ward (writer), Ric Burns (writer), Ken Burns (writer) - For episode #9: "The Better Angels Of Our Nature") ; Outstanding Informational Series (Ken Burns (producer), Ric Burns (producer), Stephen Ives (co-producer), Julie Dunfey (co-producer), Mike Hill (co-producer), Catherine Eisele (coordinating producer) - For episode #5 "The Universe Of Battle").
• In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).

Contents:

• Disc 1: Cause (episode 1) 1861
• disc 2: Very bloody affair (episode 2) ; Forever free (episode 3) 1862
• disc 3: Simply murder (episode 4); Universe of battle (episode 5) 1863
• disc 4: Valley of the shadow of death (episode 6) ; Most hallowed ground (episode 7) 1864
• disc 5: War is all hell (episode 8) ; Better angels of our nature (episode 9) 1865
• disc 6: Special features (ca. 225 min.).

Publisher or Distributor Number:

• CIVW5700
• 12023267

Control Number: 2377313

UPC:

• 841887031820
• 097368491342
• 841887014052

Subjects:

• Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861.
• Confederate States of America -- History, Military.
• Foote, Shelby -- Interviews.
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
• Military art and science -- History.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

Genre:

• Documentary television programs.
• Historical television programs.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction television programs.
• Television mini-series.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

• Axton, Hoyt, voice actor.
• Barnes, Paul, 1951- editor of moving image work.
• Burns, Ken, 1953- film director, film producer, screenwriter, director of photography.
• Burns, Ric, screenwriter, film producer.
• Corbley, Jim, film producer.
• Darling, Christopher, film producer.
• Dewhurst, Colleen, voice actor.
• Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961- voice actor.
• Florentine Films, production company.
• Foote, Shelby, interviewee.
• Freeman, Morgan, voice actor.
• Irons, Jeremy, 1948- voice actor.
• Jacobi, Derek, voice actor.
• McCullough, David G., narrator.
• Moore, Allen, 1952- director of photography.
• PBS Distribution (Firm), film distributor.
• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), broadcaster.
• Reidy, Tricia, editor of moving image work.
• Robards, Jason, voice actor.
• Shaw, Bruce, 1941- editor of moving image work.
• Squires, Buddy, director of photography.
• WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.), production company.
• Ward, Geoffrey C., screenwriter.
• Waterston, Sam, voice actor.
• White, Daniel J., film producer.