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List Price: $129.99 | | Label: Pbs Paramount
Salesrank: 2466
Released: September 28, 2004 |
| Our Price: $67.95 |
| Used Price: $19.56 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The most successful public-television miniseries in American history, the 11-hour Civil War didn't just captivate a nation, reteaching to us our history in narrative terms; it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator. When people describe documentaries using the "Ken Burns approach," its style is understood: voice-over narrators reading letters and documents dramatically and stating the writer's name at their conclusion, fresh live footage of places juxtaposed with still images (photographs, paintings, maps, prints), anecdotal interviews, and romantic musical scores taken from the era he depicts. The Civil War uses all of these devices to evoke atmosphere and resurrect an event that many knew only from stale history books. While Burns is a historian, a researcher, and a documentarian, he's above all a gifted storyteller, and it's his narrative powers that give this chronicle its beauty, overwhelming emotion, and devastating horror. Using the words of old letters, eloquently read by a variety of celebrities, the stories of historians like Shelby Foote and rare, stained photos, Burns allows us not only to relearn and finally understand our history, but also to feel and experience it. --Dave McCoy
The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns Reviews:
One of his best 
2009-12-15 - If this isn't the best Ken Burns documentary, it's certainly one of his best. His editing and pacing is top-notch. As an introduction to the Civil War and its military, social and economic issues, you can't beat Ken Burns.The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set)
Amazing documentary
2009-12-13 - Great transaction from the seller. Amazing historical documentary. Gave so much depth to the price paid for keeping the nation united. Would highly recommend this video series to anyone wanting to learn about the era of the Civil War.
The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns 
2009-12-13 - I am very dissapointed. The first disk is so scratched that it is un-watchable. It skips over the first 10 minutes, then you see about 4 minutes, then it goes back to the set up. This was advertised as very good condition, and I expected to be able to watch it with no problems. This has really discouraged me from every ordering a used DVD from Amazon again. And I cannot figure out a way to contact the seller. Really bummed... I am doing a tour of Civil War Battlegrounds soon and wanted a refresher on the sequence of the war before I went.
christmas present!
2009-12-12 - It got to me in about a week from ordering it, my boyfried alrady has the WAR and is obsessed with it and he wanted the Civil war so i got it for him for christmas :)
Great for Civil War Buffs
2009-11-20 - I remember watching this on PBS. I thought the narration was great. A good mix of photos, expert opinions, letters read by actors that were written from Abe Lincoln, soldiers on the field, generals. Any fan of the Civil War would love this.
