Twelve years after its premiere, the Emmy award-winning Civil War documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns returns to NJN. The landmark series airs in its entirety with digitally remastered images and audio and no change in content.

The Civil War portrays the heart-wrenching conflict that nearly tore this nation apart. The film is composed of archival photographs, period paintings, newsreel footage of Civil War veterans, live cinematography of battle sites, interviews with eminent historians, and readings from diaries, letters, speeches and newspapers of the era. Narrated by award-winning historian David McCullough and with principal commentary by Shelby Foote, the film features the voices of Sam Waterston, Julie Harris, Jason Robards, Jeremy Irons, Morgan Freeman, Paul Roebling, Garrison Keillor, Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur Miller and Studs Terkel.

Airs Sunday, November 17, through Thursday, November 21 at 8 pm.