and the best parts of it are the interspersed clips of Burns’s interviews with the historian Shelby Foote. Foote was the author of a magisterial three-volume history of the Civil War ...

I was the writer/director of Death and the Civil War: two-hour documentary film made/based on Drew Faust's really remarkable book ... it's the Shelby Foote set in the Civil War, it's the ...

The Civil War was produced by Ken Burns and Ric Burns and written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, and Ken Burns. Southern novelist Shelby Foote is the series' eloquent principal on-camera interview.