Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

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Season 1
  • Network: PBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 9, 2019
Metascore
91

Universal acclaim - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Apr 12, 2019
    100
    A remarkable tour of a terrible part of our history that makes the case--a compelling one--that this history isn’t entirely in the past at all.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Apr 9, 2019
    90
    Gates’s series is a great service, especially in its first two hours. ... The series’s second two hours — which cover subjects like the Jim Crow system, the Ku Klux Klan, W.E.B. DuBois, the creation of the N.A.A.C.P. and the ascendance of black popular culture — are engrossing but less urgent.
  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Dorothy Rabinowitz
    Apr 9, 2019
    90
    The series traces, in vivid detail, the struggle to aid black progress in this period and its powerful opposition. ... A rich four hours, including the birth and purpose of the Ku Klux Klan, the way in which black Americans responded, and without anything resembling a dull moment.
  5. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Aramide Tinubu
    Apr 9, 2019
    83
    Despite a somewhat tedious pace, much of Reconstruction: America After The Civil War is revelatory.