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This program is an in-depth overview of the iconic documentary. See video clips and interviews with Ken Burns, Geoffrey Ward, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires and others.
Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.
What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.
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