This Ken Burns epic on the Civil War stands with "Shoah" and the work on World War 1 as the greatest achievements in documentary film. I can only imagine that Burns must have made a decision to either tell the WHOLE story about the war or none. He told the whole story. It is an extensive work and demands a generous measure of the viewer's time and attention. This work makes the case that to understand the United States of America is to view, with eyes wide open, a catastrophe that happened here in the 1860's. This grand effort reveals, in close detail, the causes, stradegy and carnage of this long painful conflict. If you have a short attention span, skip this........if, on the other hand, you have a yearning to understand history.....this is your film. And then there is that music that you will never....NEVER, get out of your head again!
Review of The Civil War
