Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
📺 1 Season
🎬 4 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 55 min/episode
Documentary
Explore the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy.
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Season 1
The aftermath of the Civil War was bewildering, exhilarating...and terrifying. African Americans had played a crucial role in saving the Union and now, as the country grappled with the terms and implications of Reconstruction, they struggled to breathe life into their hard-won freedom. The result was a second American Revolution.
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Crew
Director
Julia Marchesi
Producer
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Dyllan McGee
Network
PBS
Production
Inkwell Films, McGee Media
Keywords
slavery