END OF THE CIVIL WAR - DVD-2-DISC COLLECTION (HISTORY CHANNEL)

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• Release Year: 2009
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: HISTORY (Channel) delivers four exciting specials in this collection highlighting the final trials and tragedies in THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR. ; [1] General William Tecumseh Sherman, known as 'Uncle Billy' to the North and as a brutal war criminal to the South, wages a vicious five-week campaign of terror through Georgia in 'Sherman's March'. (2007, IMDB:tt0899221); [2] 'April 1865', based on Jay Winik's best-seller 'April 1865: The Month That Saved America', chronicles the last 30 days of the bloody battle from the fall of Richmond to Lincoln's assassination. (2003, IMDB:tt0395943); [3] In 'The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth', a team of 10,000 federal troops, detectives, and police officers set out on a vast 12-day pursuit to find the president's killer. (2007, IMDB:tt0997253); [4] While Lincoln's body was repeatedly exhumed and his coffin frequently opened, nothing compares to the $200,000 ransom plot in 1876 devised by a group of counterfeiters in 'Stealing Lincoln's Body'. (2009, IMDB:tt1374959); ; Note: This is simply a collection or boxed set of four separate titles on 2 discs. Year of production and IMDB identification for each History Channel title has been inserted in the above text from the cover.
• Runtime: 6:00
• Company: A&E Television Networks
• Media Format: Series