The best documentary series this country has produced.

| May 24, 2019

With simple narration and still photographs, Burns is able to evoke joy and sorrow, laughter and tears. It's a singular achievement, beautifully composed and profoundly moving.

| Original Score: 10/10 | May 24, 2019

An extraordinary, encyclopedic study of the bloody battle between the states. Documentarian Ken Burns has woven together an engrossingly detailed narrative, interviews with historians, an amazing collection of archival photographs

| May 24, 2019

So rich in conception and so rewarding in execution that it almost redeems the promise of the medium. Mr. Burns and his associates have translated the materials of history into television drama of an epic order.

| May 24, 2019

It's as scintillating and utterly seductive as television gets, a Yankee Doodle Dandy of a historical extravanganza from a man who combines a scholar's appreciation of fact with a filmmaker's eye and sensibility.

| May 24, 2019

An exhaustive study of one of the most fascinating conflicts of the modern age, Burns virtually transports the viewer back to the days when America tore itself apart.

| May 24, 2019

Groundbreaking in its style and haunting in its imagery, and in readings by such actors as Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman and Sam Waterston, the miniseries manages to personalize Civil War history better than any film before or since.

| May 24, 2019

Much copied since, the style gives a poignant power to events from the past.

| May 24, 2019

Its deeply satisfying effect had crept up on me bit by convincing bit... The little things in this documentary make you want to understand the big things.

| May 24, 2019

If better use has ever been made of television, I have not seen it and do not expect to see better until Ken Burns turns his prodigious talents to his next project.

| May 24, 2019

[Reminds] us of the punch simple narration and stark photographs can deliver when presented by a master.

| May 24, 2019

Burns, his brother Ric and longtime writer and collaborator, Geoffrey C. Ward, accomplished exactly what Burns had always intended -- a visceral, deeply felt film on a long-distant war that lived on in hearts and minds.

| May 24, 2019

Film-maker Ken Burns's nine-night masterpiece managed to engage and enrich everyone.

| May 24, 2019