Based on the best-selling book by Drew Gilpin Faust, this film explores how the American Civil War created a 'republic of suffering' and charts the far-reaching social, political, and social changes brought about by the pervasive presence and fear of death during the Civil War.

The fateful encounter of the Monitor and the Merrimack, history's first-ever battle of ironclad ships, was not the U.S. Civil War's lone naval milestone. Desperate to break the stranglehold of the North's coastal blockade, the South built and sent into war the hand-powered submarine CSS Hunley. The crew consists of nine volunteers, men destined to change the world forever in a submersible ship that was the first combat vessel of its kind.

Nearly a century and a half after his death, Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration. This film examines the life and reputation of the general, whose military successes made him the scourge of the Union and the hero of the Confederacy, and who was elevated to almost god-like status by his admirers after his death.

A Virginia farmer during the Civil War refuses to support either the Confederacy or the Union until his son is taken prisoner and, seeing the horrors of war first-hand, he is forced at last to take his stand.

This film explores the ways in which the echoes of the Civil War still resonate in American society: from politics to economics, from civil rights to foreign policy, from individual to collective memory, and from South to North to West. It explores the nature of history itself, revealing how the past is truly prologue to the present.

What began as a bitter dispute over state's rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.

Ken Burns' Emmy Award-winning epic documentary, digitally enhanced, features never-before-seen interviews, commentary from Ken Burns, a sixteen-page collector's booklet and more. It tells the story of a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.

It was one of the great turning points in American history: a clash of ideologies from the political arena and on the battlefield, where over half a million lives were lost. The war between the Union and the Confederacy saw the country divided along geographical, racial and industrial lines, and few were spared the decision of where to pledge their loyalty. Communities were torn apart, families broken and cities destroyed. Now, travel back and experience...

A spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the train's colonel befriending the leaders of the robbery when the war ends. Together, they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies.

Produced with the cooperation of leading Civil War historian Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump, a personal look at two iconic leaders of the Civil War. Surprising details reveal the bold choices and almost godlike power Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee summoned on decisive battlefields like Vicksburg and Gettysburg that, within days of each other, turned the tide of the war.