The Civil War

The Better Angels of Our Nature: 1865

E9    Sep 27, 1990    70m    TV-14
This extraordinary final episode of The Civil War begins in the bittersweet aftermath of Lee's surrender and then goes on to narrate the horrendous events of five days later when, on April 14, Lincoln is assassinated. After chronicling Lincoln's poignant funeral, the series recounts the final days of the war, the capture of John Wilkes Booth and the fates of the Civil War's major protagonists. The episode then considers the consequences and meaning of a war that transformed the country from a collection of states to the nation we are today.
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Cast of The Better Angels of Our Nature: 1865
  • David McCulloughNarrator
  • Sam WaterstonAbraham Lincoln
  • Julie HarrisMary Chestnut
  • Jason RobardsUlysses S. Grant
  • Morgan FreemanFrederick Douglass
  • Paul RoeblingJoshua Chamberlain
  • Garrison KeillorWalt Whitman
  • George BlackRobert E. Lee
  • Arthur MillerWilliam Tecumseh Sherman
  • Christopher MurneyElisha Hunt Rhodes
  • Charles McDowellSamuel R. Watkins
  • Horton FooteJefferson Davis
  • George PlimptonGeorge Templeton Strong
  • Philip BoscoHorace Greeley
  • Terry CourierGeorge B. McClellan
  • Jody PowellStonewall Jackson / Various
  • Studs TerkelBenjamin Butler / Various
  • Hoyt AxtonVarious
  • John HartfordVarious
  • Colleen DewhurstVarious
  • Shelby FooteVarious
  • Ronnie GilbertVarious
  • Jeremy IronsVarious
  • Gene JonesVarious
  • Derek JacobiVarious
  • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Various
  • Laurence FishburneVarious
  • Pamela ReedVarious
  • M. Emmet WalshVarious

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