The Civil War

Season 1 Episode 9: The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865)

Sep 27, 1990 TV-14 1h 8m 8.8

The North celebrated Lee's surrender and the end of the war. On April 14, Good Friday, John Wilkes Booth learned that President Lincoln, General Grant and others were to attend a play at the Ford theater. The Grants decided not to attend...

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Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Cause (1861)

1. The Cause (1861)

Aired: Sep 23, 1990

Slavery began to flourish in the U.S. at the end of the 18th century with Eli...

Episode 3 Forever Free (1862)

3. Forever Free (1862)

Aired: Sep 24, 1990

While Gen. McClellan sat outside Richmond, three Union armies were being kept...

Episode 4 Simply Murder (1863)

4. Simply Murder (1863)

Aired: Sep 25, 1990

By early 1863, Union soldiers with the Army of the Potomac had not been paid ...

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Network: PBS

Genres: War, Documentary, History

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