It’s been a minute since we’ve had a Civil War-set miniseries, a genre that proved popular in the 1980s thanks to ABC’s “North and South” (and its soaring Bill Conti score) and CBS’s “The Blue and the ...

The eight-part series was co-created by John Sayles, directed by Roland Joffé, and executive produced by Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman.

Prime Video's historical drama tells the story of real-life Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, but it fills the rest of the space with imagined details and too many plots and subplots.

The Civil War, one of the most defining moments in American history, tore the nation apart, pitting North against South--brother against brother. Over the course of four years, more than 750,000 ...