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## HEADING: THE CIVIL WAR 675. THE CIVIL WAR BEGINS TONIGHT ON PBS Starting at 0:00 PM and continuing for five nights on ABCD, Channel 00 "...as sweeping, valiant and haunting as the Civil War itself." -Ron Powers GQ Magazine "...an unprecedented achievement." -Harper Barnes St. Louis Post Dispatch "...simply put, a masterpiece." -John Bowers Americana Magazine This is the definitive yet personal history of that watershed American experience in which 3 million people fought - and 2% of the population perished. Five years in the making, this groundbreaking series by award-winning film maker Ken Burns is both honest scholarship and riveting entertainment. Jason Robards, Sam Waterston, Julie Harris, Jeremy Irons, Garrison Keillor, and Morgan Freeman are among the outstanding actors whose voices give life to letters, diaries, photographs, and paintings of those who lived through the War or died in it. Narrated by David McCullough. 9/23/90 Starting at 7:00 PM and continuing for five nights 676. THE CIVIL WAR 2. KEN BURNS INTERVIEWS. GRAY GHOST. (Debut) (BW) 9/23/90 Filmmaker Ken Burns' exhaustive and often moving 11-hour history of The Civil War begins. See the Close-up Photos of soldiers' faces poignantly tell much of the story of The Civil War, and in 1862, soldiers died in unprecedented numbers in the "unspeakable slaughter" of Antietam and Shiloh. Although the South was on the rise for much of 1862, a "great force" was emerging for the North: Ulysses S. Grant. 9/24/90 Two of the factors that make Ken Burns' The Civil War so accessible are its deft use of period photos and its unusually clear battle charts. This in- stallment focuses on the great clashes of 1863: Lee's extraordinary victory at Chancellorsville, the Union triumph at Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg to Grant. -7 PM 7 9/25/90 Elisha Hunt Rhodes, the Pug Henry of The Civil War. The conclusion of The Civil War covers Sherman's March and the events at Ap- pomattox and Ford's Theatre. 9/27/90 SIEGE OF CASTLES. 14th Cent. 4/12/98 THIS CENTURY. WAR. (1993)