American Experience

Ruby Dee

Narrator (voice)

Andrew Young

Self

Hal Holbrook

Narrator (voice)

Sally Chapman

Self

Garrison Keillor

Narrator (voice)

George Palmer Putnam

Self (archive footage)

Roy Scheider

Narrator (voice)

Marcos Akiaten

Massasoit

Chris Cooper

Narrator (voice)

William Belleau

Wampanoag man

Jesse Owens

Self

Tonantzin Carmelo

Awashunk

Hilmar Dressler

Self

Mark S. Cartier

John Easton

Jeremy Schaap

Self

William Joseph Elk III

Wampanoag man

Professor Margaret MacMillan

Self

Nicholas Irons

Edward Winslow

Theodor Michael

Self

Jill Lepore

Self

William Rhoden

Self

Jim Loutzenhiser

Josiah Winslow

Harry Edwards

Self

Zahn McClarnon

Wampanoag man

Volker Kluge

Self

Tatanka Means

Nookau

Guy Walters

Self

Duncan B. Putney

Miles Standish

Rainer Rother

Self

Alan Francis Sullivan

Governor John Carver

Iris Cummings Critchell

Self

Lewis D. Wheeler

Stephen Hopkins

David Wallechinsky

Self

Jerry Wolf

Wampanoag Man

Louis Zamperini

Self

Michael Greyeyes

Tecumseh

William J. Baker

Self

Alex Meraz

Warrior

Susan Ware

Self

Billy Merasty

Warrior

Rafael Medoff

Self

Thosh Collins

Warrior

Marlene Owens Rankin

Self

Chevez Ezaneh

Young Tecumseh

Beverly Owens Prather

Self

Buffalo Bill Cody

Self

David Clay Large

Self

Lawrence Santiago

Warrior

Louis Stokes

Self

Bob Boze Bell

Self - Writer

Laura Linney

Narrator (voice)

Peter Dodson

Self - Paleontologist

Philip Bosco

Narrator (voice)

Jacques Gauthier

Self - Paleontologist

Kathy Bates

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Jim Dunham

Self - Historian

Martin Luther King Jr.

Himself (archive footage)

Timothy Rowe

Self - Paleontologist

Kate Burton

Narrator

Robert Bakker

Self

Peter Krause

Narrator

John Wesley Powell

Self

J. Hunter

Self

William F. Cody

Self

Dina Titus

Self

Tim Naftali

Self

Judd Hirsch

(voice)

David Nasaw

Self

Al Lewis

Self

Nancy Koehn

Self

Kyle MacLachlan

Narrator

Carmenita Higginbotham

Self

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (archive footage) / Self (voice) (archive footage)

Richard M. Sherman

Self

Ron Vawter

Charles Guiteau

Floyd Norman

Self

Bart Whiteman

James Garfield

Ron Miller

Self

Robert Fields

George Scoville

Marty Sklar

Self

Adolph Mall

Judge Cox

Alice Davis

Self

Marty McDonough

District Attorney Cockhill

Robert Givens

Self

Kevin Murray

Mr Jocelyn

Jefferson Cowie

Self

Steven Conn

Self

Adam Green

Self

Amelia Earhart

Self / Self (archive footage)

Linda Clifford

Self

Walter Cronkite

Self / Self (archive footage)

Ayana Contreras

Self

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self / Self (archive footage)

Darlene Jackson

Self

Wes Studi

Major Ridge / Warrior in Canoe

Felipe Rose

Self

John Mahoney

(voice)

Paul Natkin

Self

Richard Nixon

Self / Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Carter

Self (archive footage)

Ronnie Dugger

Self

Henry Kissinger

Self

Lady Bird Johnson

Self

Frank Snepp

Self

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)

Roy Edward Disney

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)

Charles Kuralt

Narrator (voice)

Will Lyman

Narrator (voice)

Roger Rees

William Bradford

F. Murray Abraham

Narrator

Brian Dennehy

Aaron Burr (voice)

Judith Light

Narrator (voice)

Tom Hanks

Narrator (voice)

Marion Ross

Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)

Cherry Jones

Narrator (voice)

Glenn Close

Narrator (voice)

Charles Kuralt

Narrator (voice)

William Stanley Merwin

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)

Ping Wu

Narrator (voice)

Nicholas Purcell

Charles Adams

Bugsy Siegel

Self (archive footage)

Len Cariou

Narrator (voice)

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Narrator

André Holland

Narrator

Joanna Rhinehart

Narrator

Lea Salonga

Narrator

Vanessa Williams

Narrator (voice)

Bahni Turpin

Zora Neale Hurston (voice)

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)

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)

Dorothy Thompson

Self (archive footage)

Robert Bakker

Self

Michael Murphy

Narrator

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.

Self - Narrator

Denzel Washington

Self - Narrator

Matthew Broderick

Jack Binns (voice)

Stephanie Castellarin

Hallie Davis (voice)

Paul Guilfoyle

James Connolly (voice)

John Maxtone-Graham

Self

David Ogden Stiers

Narrator (voice)

Susan Douglas

Self

David McCullough

Host / Narrator (voice) / Self

Phil Petersen

Self

Michael Murphy

Narrator / Narrator (voice) / Self - Narrator (voice)

Charles A. Haas

Self

Oliver Platt

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Bill Paxton

Self - Reader (voice)

Linda Hunt

Narrator (voice)

Blaine Hamann

Self - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Russell Baker

Narrator (voice)

Ila Clements

Self - Worker's Daughter

Liev Schreiber

Narrator (voice)

Tommy Nelson

Self - Worker

Blair Brown

Ellen Wilson (voice) / Narrator (voice)

Mary Bacon

Sally Thorpe

Joe Morton

Narrator (voice)

Samuel Barnett

Philip's Schoolmate

Julian Bond

Narrator (voice)

Gerry Bamman

Peter Fenner

Susan Sarandon

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Lauren Bloom

Young Eliza Schuyler

Andre Braugher

Narrator / Narrator (voice) / Robert Carter (voice)

John Ellison Conlee

Shopkeeper Evans

Julian Bond

Narrator (voice)

John Curless

David Hosack

Mary McDonnell

Narrator (voice)

Michael Cumpsty

James Callender

James Avery

Charles Hamilton Houston (voice) / Narrator (voice)

Richard Easton

George Washington

Campbell Scott

Narrator (voice)

Peter Gerety

Robert Bartlett

Frances Sternhagen

(voice) / Self (voice)

Daniel Gerroll

Thomas Jefferson

George Plimpton

(voice) / Self (voice)

Neal Huff

Ephraim Slattery

Peter Coyote

Narrator (voice)

Neil McGarry

Aaron Burr

Stacy Keach

Narrator (voice)

Julia Morrison

Mary Paget

Richard Ben Cramer

Narrator (voice)

Brian Murray

Gouverneur Morris

Jason Robards

Narrator (voice)

Mark Nelson

Nathaniel Pendleton

Donald Sutherland

Narrator (voice)

Denis O'Hare

Henry Lee

Alfre Woodard

Narrator (voice)

Kelli O'Hara

Maria Reynolds

Dion Graham

Narrator (voice)

Jamie Parker

Philip Hamilton

Robert Redford

Narrator (voice)

Brandon Reilly

Young Hamilton in St. Croix

Sada Thompson

Narrator (voice)

Bridget Regan

Angelica Shippen

Anna Deavere Smith

Narrator (voice)

Henry Strozier

John Adams

Morley Safer

Narrator (voice) / Self (archive footage)

Michael Stuhlbarg

Officer Stephen Colden

Harris Yulin

Narrator (voice)

Angela Thornton

Old Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

Robert J. Thompson

Self

Leonardo Cuesta

Plantation Slave St. Croix

Richard Thomas

Narrator (voice)

Joanne Freeman

Self

Randy Quaid

Narrator (voice)

Kevin R. Hershberger

Continental Soldier

Héctor Elizondo

Narrator (voice)

Brían F. O'Byrne

Alexander Hamilton

Morgan Freeman

Narrator (voice)

John Pagano

Continental Officer

Scott Glenn

Narrator (voice)

Matthew Arkin

Alexander Bickel (voice)

Courtney B. Vance

Narrator (voice)

Robin Miles

Self - Narrator (voice)

Robert Duvall

Narrator (voice)

James Hite

Self

Eric Sevareid

Himself / Narrator (voice)

Jared Cohen

Self

Hume Cronyn

Narrator (voice)

Dan Rather

Self (archive footage)

Sam Grey

Felix Frankfurter (voice)

Kate Andersen Brower

Self

Joe Mantegna

Narrator (voice)

Ramesh Ponnuru

Self

Hal Linden

Narrator (voice)

Joel K. Goldstein

Self

Ellen Burstyn

Narrator (voice)

Rachel Maddow

Self

Jeffrey Wright

Narrator (voice)

John D. Feerick

Self

Colm Feore

Narrator (voice)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Stephen Ives

Himself - Director

Hilary Brown

Self

René Auberjonois

Alexander Hamilton (voice) / Woodrow Wilson (voice)

Carole Jerome

Self

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Stephen Kinzer

Self

Donald Regan

Self

James Q. Roberts

Self

Lois Smith

(voice)

Barbara Rosen

Self

David Margulies

(voice) / Self (voice)

Barry Rosen

Self

Corey Stoll

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Gary Sick

Self

Benjamin Bratt

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Alan Campbell

Josephus Daniels / Other Voices

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Keith David

W.E. Henderson / Other Voices

Robert Dallek

Self

David McCulloch

Narrator (voice)

Gore Vidal

Self / Self (archive footage)

Will Lyman

Narrator (voice)

Stephanie Coontz

Self

Helen Gahagan

Self (archive footage)

Rick Perlstein

Self

John Connally

Self

Jann Wenner

Self

Lynda Johnson Robb

Self (archive footage)

Dan T. Carter

Self

Stokely Carmichael

Self (archive footage)

Robert Caro

Self

Clark Clifford

Self

Mark Kurlansky

Self

James Farmer

Self

Phyllis Schlafly

Self

Daniel Ellsberg

Self

Todd Gitlin

Self

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Self

Walt Disney

Self (archive footage)

Barry Goldwater

Self (archive footage)

Don Hahn

Self

Hubert H. Humphrey

Self (archive footage)

Richard Schickel

Self

Nicholas Katzenbach

Self

Don Lusk

Self

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Ruthie Tompson

Self

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Tom Sito

Self

Robert McNamara

Self (archive footage)

Neal Gabler

Self

John W. McCormack

Self (archive footage)

Steven Watts

Self

Hồ Chí Minh

Self (archive footage)

Eric Smoodin

Self

George Reedy

Self

Ron Suskind

Self

Dean Rusk

Self (archive footage)

Mandy Patinkin

Narrator (voice)

Richard B. Russell

Self (archive footage)

Carl Lumbly

Narrator (voice)

Sargent Shriver

Self

Keith Carradine

Narrator (voice)

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage)

Irv Drasnin

Narrator (voice)

Jack Valenti

Self