The Civil War – 26th Anniversary Edition
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
I will not bother to review the content material in this set. If you know the content of Ken Burns’ work, you know it’s good. After seeing other reviews that talked about “good quality” versions of the set and “bad quality” versions, I was apprehensive about what I might be purchasing. I can report that the blu-ray version with the UPC label 841887027380 is of excellent quality. The colors are vivid, the images are sharp, and the black bars on the sides of the screen are pure black on my 4K tv set. Although this version is the November 12, 2015, release date, the disk set includes a PBS information sheet promoting other series. One of those series is Mercy Street, which was a 2016 tv series. So, it is my presumption that the manufacturing date of this set was after 11/12/15.-Jeff
Truly the greatest documentary ever. A sweeping view of an entire generation in a 4 year historical period. When watching it, you feel apart of the story, the understanding of our ancestors by way of the words they wrote and spoke. One cannot truly understand the amount of work that went into this creation (as Ken Burns stated, it took 6 years of work poring over documents, letters, pictures and music) that feels like a labor of love for our country and the people who lived in it between 1861 and 1865.This historical masterpiece can even shed a light on our current political situation. Lincoln’s quote “A house divided against itself cannot stand” reminds us of today’s division and harkens back to time where ignorance and self serving behavior nearly destroyed our country and calls out to us to set aside our differences and learn to work together for the sake our nation.-Amazon Customer
I owned the VHS tape edition of this series 30 years ago and am delighted to have the BluRay edition now. This series should be viewed only after reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s brilliant book Team of Rivals, which adds additional important nuances to the DVD series by Ken Burns.- Steven Schlossstein
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Garrison Keillor Sam Waterson
Directors: Ken Burns
Format: Box set, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Number of discs: 6
Rated: NR- Not Rated
Studio: PBS
DVD Release Date: November 12, 2015
Run Time: 700 minutes
ASIN: B0189I11B6
