Word: kunhardts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Airing in two parts on ABC, this four-hour documentary follows the Civil War model by combining archival photographs with excerpts from contemporaneous diaries and letters. The producers -- Philip Kunhardt Jr., a former managing editor of LIFE magazine, and his two sons Peter and Philip III -- have drawn on famous Mathew Brady portraits, as well as an extraordinary collection of Lincoln photos assembled by the elder Kunhardt's grandfather, Frederick Hill Meserve. There is music by Alan Menken (Aladdin), narration by James Earl Jones and readings by a stellar cast of Hollywood celebrities as the voices of the principals...