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Ken Burns: The Civil War Episode 8 (War Is All Hell - 1865)
Date de diffusion: : 11 Septembre 2015William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea brings war to the heart of Georgia and the Carolinas and spells the end of the Confederacy. Following Lincoln's second inauguration, Petersburg and Richmond finally fall to Grant's army. Lee's...
Ken Burns: The Civil War Episode 7 (Most Hallowed Ground - 1864)
Date de diffusion: : 10 Septembre 2015The presidential campaign of 1864 set Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union itself. Opinion in the North has turned strongly against Lincoln and...
Ken Burns: The Civil War Episode 6 (Valley of the Shadow of Death - 1864)
Date de diffusion: : 10 Septembre 2015This episode begins with a biographical comparison of Grant and Lee and then chronicles the extraordinary series of battles that pitted the two generals against each other from the wilderness to Petersburg in Virginia. With Grant and Lee...
Ken Burns: The Civil War Episode 5 (The Universe of Battle - 1863)
Date de diffusion: : 09 Septembre 2015This episode opens with a dramatic account of the turning point of the war: the Battle of Gettysburg - the greatest battle ever fought in the Western Hemisphere. For three days, 150,000 will fight to the death in the gentle Pennsylvania...
Ken Burns: The Civil War Episode 9 (The Better Angels of Our Nature - 1865)
Date de diffusion: : 11 Septembre 2015On April 14, five days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln is assassinated. After chronicling Lincoln's funeral, the episode recounts the final days of the war, the capture of John Wilkes Booth and the fates of the series' major...
Ken Burns: The Civil War Episode 4 (Simply Murder - 1863)
Date de diffusion: : 09 Septembre 2015This episode begins with the nightmarish Union disaster at Fredericksburg and follows two clashes that spring: at Chancellorsville in May, where Lee wins his most brilliant victory but loses Stonewall Jackson; and at Vicksburg, where...
Ken Burns: The Civil War Episode 3 (Forever Free - 1862)
Date de diffusion: : 08 Septembre 2015This episode charts the dramatic events that led to Lincoln's decision to set the slaves free. Convinced by July 1862 that emancipation was now morally and militarily crucial to the future of the Union, Lincoln must wait for a victory to...
Ken Burns: The Civil War Episode 2 (A Very Bloody Affair - 1862)
Date de diffusion: : 08 Septembre 20151862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves. Episode two begins with the political infighting that threatened to swamp Lincoln's administration...
Ken Burns: The Civil War Episode 1 (The Cause - 1861)
Date de diffusion: : 07 Septembre 2015Beginning with an examination of slavery, this episode looks at the causes of the war and the burning questions of union and states' rights. Significant events include John Brown's rebellion at Harper's Ferry, the election of Abraham...