American Experience

David Ogden Stiers

Narrator (voice)

David McCullough

Narrator (voice)

Michael Murphy

Narrator (voice)

Linda Hunt

Self - Narrator (voice)

Oliver Platt

Narrator (voice)

Liev Schreiber

Narrator (voice)

Joe Morton

Narrator (voice)

Julian Bond

Narrator (voice)

Jason Robards

Narrator (voice)

Blair Brown

Narrator (voice)

Frances Sternhagen

(voice)

Campbell Scott

Narrator (voice)

Andre Braugher

Narrator (voice)

George Plimpton

(voice)

Stacy Keach

Narrator (voice)

Russell Baker

Narrator (voice)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Robert Dallek

Self

Dion Graham

Self - Narrator (voice)

René Auberjonois

Woodrow Wilson (voice)

Richard Ben Cramer

Narrator (voice)

David Margulies

(voice)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Benjamin Bratt

Narrator (voice)

Corey Stoll

Narrator (voice)

Holly Hunter

Mary Lincoln (voice)

David Morse

Abraham Lincoln

Robert J. Thompson

Self

Peter Coyote

Narrator (voice)

Alfre Woodard

Narrator (voice)

Randy Quaid

Narrator (voice)

Héctor Elizondo

Narrator (voice)

Morgan Freeman

Narrator (voice)

Scott Glenn

Narrator (voice)

Laura Linney

Narrator (voice)

Irv Drasnin

Narrator (voice)

Robert Redford

Self - Narrator (voice)

James Avery

Narrator (voice)

Susan Sarandon

Narrator (voice)

Eric Sevareid

Self

Martin Luther King Jr.

Himself (archive footage)

Kate Burton

Narrator

Peter Krause

Narrator

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Donald Regan

Self

Dina Titus

Self

Lois Smith

(voice)

Morley Safer

Self (archive footage)

Kathy Bates

Narrator

Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage)

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (archive footage)

Amelia Earhart

Self (archive footage)

Wes Studi

Major Ridge

Ronnie Dugger

Self

Lady Bird Johnson

Self

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Gore Vidal

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self

Tim Naftali

Self

Robert Caro

Self

Walt Disney

Self (archive footage)

Don Hahn

Self

Richard Schickel

Self

Don Lusk

Self

Ruthie Tompson

Self

Tom Sito

Self

Neal Gabler

Self

Steven Watts

Self

Eric Smoodin

Self

Ron Suskind

Self

F. Murray Abraham

Self - Narrator (voice)

Mary McDonnell

Narrator (voice)

Donald Sutherland

Narrator (voice)

Brian Dennehy

Aaron Burr (voice)

Mandy Patinkin

Narrator (voice)

Judith Light

Narrator (voice)

Tom Hanks

Narrator (voice)

Carl Lumbly

Narrator (voice)

Marion Ross

Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)

Cherry Jones

Narrator (voice)

Keith Carradine

Narrator (voice)

Courtney B. Vance

Narrator (voice)

Robert Duvall

Narrator (voice)

Glenn Close

Self - Narrator (voice)

Charles Kuralt

Self - Narrator (voice)

Hume Cronyn

Narrator (voice)

Ruby Dee

Narrator (voice)

Philip Bosco

Narrator (voice)

Sam Grey

Felix Frankfurter (voice)

Joe Mantegna

Narrator (voice)

Hal Linden

Narrator (voice)

Ellen Burstyn

Narrator (voice)

William Stanley Merwin

Narrator (voice)

Hal Holbrook

Narrator (voice)

Garrison Keillor

Narrator (voice)

Roy Scheider

Narrator (voice)

Anna Deavere Smith

Narrator (voice)

Harris Yulin

Narrator (voice)

Simon Russell Beale

John Adams (voice)

Lisa Emond

Abigail Adams (voice)

Mitchell McCann

Jesse James

Brian Paulette

Frank James

Christopher Plummer

Narrator

Marilyn Spanier

Annie Oakley (voice)

Kenneth Branagh

Narrator (voice)

Jeffrey Wright

Narrator (voice)

Colm Feore

Narrator (voice)

Ping Wu

Narrator (voice)

Chris Cooper

Narrator (voice)

Nicholas Purcell

Charles Adams

Bugsy Siegel

Self (archive footage)

Roger Rees

William Bradford

Richard Thomas

Narrator (voice)

Sada Thompson

Narrator (voice)

Len Cariou

Narrator (voice)

Stephen Ives

Himself - Director

Jesse Owens

Self

Hilmar Dressler

Self

Jeremy Schaap

Self

Professor Margaret MacMillan

Self

Theodor Michael

Self

William Rhoden

Self

Harry Edwards

Self

Volker Kluge

Self

Guy Walters

Self

Rainer Rother

Self

Iris Cummings Critchell

Self

David Wallechinsky

Self

Louis Zamperini

Self

William J. Baker

Self

Susan Ware

Self

Rafael Medoff

Self

Marlene Owens Rankin

Self

Beverly Owens Prather

Self

David Clay Large

Self

Louis Stokes

Self

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Narrator

André Holland

Narrator

Joanna Rhinehart

Narrator

Lea Salonga

Narrator

Vanessa Williams

Narrator (voice)

Bahni Turpin

Zora Neale Hurston (voice)

J. Hunter

Self

Jim Jones

Self (archive footage)

Leo J. Ryan

Self (archive footage)

Christine Jorgensen

Self (archive footage)

Chris Dodd

Self

Lee Wilkof

Dr. Walter Freeman (voice)

Joanna Merlin

Family Member (voice)

Judd Hirsch

(voice)

Al Lewis

Self

Timothy Hutton

(voice)

Beverly Gage

Self

William Hitchcock

Self

Sarah Churchwell

Self

Bradley Hart

Self

Steven Ross

Self

Charles Coughlin

Self

Leah Wright Rigeur

Self

Fritz Kuhn

Self (archive footage)

Владимир Ленин

Self (archive footage)

Dorothy Thompson

Self (archive footage)

Kyle MacLachlan

Narrator

Ron Vawter

Charles Guiteau

Bart Whiteman

James Garfield

Robert Fields

George Scoville

Adolph Mall

Judge Cox

Marty McDonough

District Attorney Cockhill

Kevin Murray

Mr Jocelyn

Steven Conn

Self

Kenneth Anger

Self

Bradley Douglas Cook

Alfred Kinsey

Mary Pickford

Self

Douglas Fairbanks

Self

Jeanine Basinger

Self

Charlie Chaplin

Self

D.W. Griffith

Self

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

Self

Jack Pickford

Self

Lottie Pickford

Self

Hermann Göring

Self (archive footage)

Robert Jackson

Self

Benjamin Ferencz

Self

William Jennings Bryan

Self

Clarence Darrow

Self

John Thomas Scopes

Self

Gutzon Borglum

Self

Theodore Roosevelt

Self

Jackson Walker

Daniel Ross

Josh Blaylock

Young John Ross

Carla-Rae

Suzanna Ridge

Kelly Finley

Sara

William J. Finley

Elias Boudinot

Wesley French

John Ridge

Robert Hatch

Missionary

Ryan Lewis

Wealthy Plantation Owner

Emily Podleski

Sarah Northrup

Brad D. Smith

Senator

Frederick Stuart

John Ross

Steve Warren

Missionary

Hans Bethe

Self

Peter Haydu

Russian voices (voice)

Curtis LeMay

Self (archive footage)

Curtis LeMay

Self

Edward Teller

Self

Richard Rhodes

Self

Robert Lansing

Narrator

Marc Seifer

Self

Jane Alcorn

Self

Harold Clark

Self

Peter Fisher

Self

Samantha Hunt

Self

Jill Jonnes

Self

John M. Staudenmaier

Self

Louis Gossett Jr.

Narrator (voice)

Denzel Washington

Narrator (voice)

Matthew Broderick

Jack Binns (voice)

Stephanie Castellarin

Hallie Davis (voice)

Paul Guilfoyle

James Connolly (voice)

John Maxtone-Graham

Self

Susan Douglas

Self

Phil Petersen

Self

Charles A. Haas

Self

Bill Paxton

Self - Reader (voice)

Blaine Hamann

Self - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Ila Clements

Self - Worker's Daughter

Tommy Nelson

Self - Worker

John Mahoney

(voice)

Mary Bacon

Sally Thorpe

Samuel Barnett

Philip's Schoolmate

Gerry Bamman

Peter Fenner

Lauren Bloom

Young Eliza Schuyler

John Ellison Conlee

Shopkeeper Evans

John Curless

David Hosack

Michael Cumpsty

James Callender

Richard Easton

George Washington

Peter Gerety

Robert Bartlett

Daniel Gerroll

Thomas Jefferson

Neal Huff

Ephraim Slattery

Neil McGarry

Aaron Burr

Julia Morrison

Mary Paget

Brian Murray

Gouverneur Morris

Mark Nelson

Nathaniel Pendleton

Denis O'Hare

Henry Lee

Kelli O'Hara

Maria Reynolds

Jamie Parker

Philip Hamilton

Brandon Reilly

Young Hamilton in St. Croix

Bridget Regan

Angelica Shippen

Henry Strozier

John Adams

Michael Stuhlbarg

Officer Stephen Colden

Angela Thornton

Old Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

Leonardo Cuesta

Plantation Slave St. Croix

Joanne Freeman

Self

Kevin R. Hershberger

Continental Soldier

Brían F. O'Byrne

Alexander Hamilton

John Pagano

Continental Officer

Matthew Arkin

Alexander Bickel (voice)

Robin Miles

Self - Narrator (voice)

James Hite

Self

Jared Cohen

Self

Dan Rather

Self (archive footage)

Kate Andersen Brower

Self

Ramesh Ponnuru

Self

Joel K. Goldstein

Self

Rachel Maddow

Self

John D. Feerick

Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Hilary Brown

Self

Carole Jerome

Self

Stephen Kinzer

Self

James Q. Roberts

Self

Barbara Rosen

Self

Barry Rosen

Self

Gary Sick

Self

Alan Campbell

Josephus Daniels / Other Voices

Keith David

W.E. Henderson / Other Voices

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Self

Norman Lloyd

Self

Orson Welles

Self (archive footage)

Gary Cooper

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Myrna Loy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dick Powell

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

David McCulloch

Narrator (voice)

Helen Gahagan

Self (archive footage)

John Connally

Self

Lynda Johnson Robb

Self (archive footage)

Clark Clifford

Self

James Farmer

Self

Daniel Ellsberg

Self

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Self

Barry Goldwater

Self (archive footage)

Hubert H. Humphrey

Self (archive footage)

Nicholas Katzenbach

Self

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Robert McNamara

Self (archive footage)

John W. McCormack

Self (archive footage)

Hồ Chí Minh

Self (archive footage)

George Reedy

Self

Dean Rusk

Self (archive footage)

Richard B. Russell

Self (archive footage)

Sargent Shriver

Self

Jack Valenti

Self

Andrew Young

Self

Sally Chapman

Self

George Palmer Putnam

Self (archive footage)

A. Peter Bailey

Self - Harlem Resident

Maya Angelou

Self - Author

Ossie Davis

Self - Harlem Resident

Alex Haley

Self - Biographer

Josef Stalin

Self (archive footage)

King George V of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

H.L. Mencken

Self

Marcos Akiaten

Massasoit

William Belleau

Wampanoag man

Tonantzin Carmelo

Awashunk

Mark S. Cartier

John Easton

William Joseph Elk III

Wampanoag man

Nicholas Irons

Edward Winslow

Jill Lepore

Self

Jim Loutzenhiser

Josiah Winslow

Zahn McClarnon

Wampanoag man

Tatanka Means

Nookau

Duncan B. Putney

Miles Standish

Alan Francis Sullivan

Governor John Carver

Lewis D. Wheeler

Stephen Hopkins

Jerry Wolf

Wampanoag Man

Michael Greyeyes

Tecumseh

Dwier Brown

Alex Meraz

Warrior

Billy Merasty

Warrior

Thosh Collins

Warrior

Chevez Ezaneh

Young Tecumseh

Lawrence Santiago

Warrior

Bob Boze Bell

Self - Writer

Buffalo Bill Cody

Self

Peter Dodson

Self - Paleontologist

Jacques Gauthier

Self - Paleontologist

Timothy Rowe

Self - Paleontologist

Robert Bakker

Self

John Wesley Powell

Self

William F. Cody

Self

Josh Hamilton

Carolyn McCormick

Paul Bosche

Reenactor

Alfredo del Rio

Reenactor

John DiGiacomo

Reenactor

Dana Gaiser

Reenactor

Noah Goldman

Police Officer

Virginia Apuzzo

Self

Martin Boyce

Self

David Carter

Self

Raymond Castro

Self

William Eskridge

Self

Danny Garvin

Self

Jerry Hoose

Self

Ed Koch

Self

Doric Wilson

Self

Truman Capote

Self (archive footage)

Liberace

Self (archive footage)

John V. Lindsay

Self (archive footage)

George Putnam

Self (archive footage)

Charles Cabell

Self - General, CIA Deputy Director (archive footage)

Evan Thomas

Self - Writer

Michael Dobbs

Self

Nikita Chruschtschow

Self (archive footage)

David Nasaw

Self

Stephanie Coontz

Self

Rick Perlstein

Self

Jann Wenner

Self

Dan T. Carter

Self

Mark Kurlansky

Self

Phyllis Schlafly

Self

Todd Gitlin

Self

Roy Edward Disney

Self

Nancy Koehn

Self

Carmenita Higginbotham

Self

Richard M. Sherman

Self

Floyd Norman

Self

Ron Miller

Self

Marty Sklar

Self

Alice Davis

Self

Robert Givens

Self

Scott Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

Gordon Cooper

Self (archive footage)

John Glenn

Self (archive footage)

Gus Grissom

Self (archive footage)

Ken Hollings

Self

Alan Shepard

Self (archive footage)

Deke Slayton

Self (archive footage)

John Hope Franklin

Jefferson Cowie

Self

Adam Green

Self

Linda Clifford

Self

Ayana Contreras

Self

Darlene Jackson

Self

Felipe Rose

Self

Paul Natkin

Self

Jimmy Carter

Self (archive footage)

Will Lyman

Self - Narrator (voice)

Jim Dunham

Self - Historian

Henry Kissinger

Self

Frank Snepp

Self

Mark Obenhaus

Narrator

Sam Yorty

Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Kwame Ture

Self (archive footage)

Wendy Kline

Self