This auction is for a brand new DVD in original packaging of the epic documentary, “The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns."

This PBS Home Video is hailed as a masterpiece and a landmark in storytelling.

"The most successful public-television miniseries in American history, the 11-hour Civil War didn't just captivate a nation, reteaching to us our history in narrative terms; it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator. When people describe documentaries using the "Ken Burns approach," its style is understood: voice-over narrators reading letters and documents dramatically and stating the writer's name at their conclusion, fresh live footage of places juxtaposed with still images (photographs, paintings, maps, prints), anecdotal interviews, and romantic musical scores taken from the era he depicts. 

The Civil War uses all of these devices to evoke atmosphere and resurrect an event that many knew only from stale history books. While Burns is a historian, a researcher, and a documentarian, he's above all a gifted storyteller, and it's his narrative powers that give this chronicle its beauty, overwhelming emotion, and devastating horror. Using the words of old letters, eloquently read by a variety of celebrities, the stories of historians like Shelby Foote and rare, stained photos, Burns allows us not only to relearn and finally understand our history, but also to feel and experience it." --Dave McCoy

“Takes the nations most cataclysmic act of self-definition and brings it hauntingly and wonderously alive.” -- Newsweek.

This DVD has many special features like interviews with Shelby Foote, Stanley Crouch, George Will and Ken Burns!