American Experience

Ken Hollings

Self

Jim Dunham

Self - Historian

Alan Shepard

Self (archive footage)

Frank Snepp

Self

Deke Slayton

Self (archive footage)

Sam Yorty

Self (archive footage)

F. Murray Abraham

Self - Narrator (voice)

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Brian Dennehy

Aaron Burr (voice)

Mark Obenhaus

Narrator

Mandy Patinkin

Narrator (voice)

Kwame Ture

Self (archive footage)

Judith Light

Narrator (voice)

Wendy Kline

Self

Tom Hanks

Narrator (voice)

Eve Best

Dolley Madison

Carl Lumbly

Narrator (voice)

Marion Ross

Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)

Cherry Jones

Narrator (voice)

Keith Carradine

Narrator (voice)

Courtney B. Vance

Narrator (voice)

Glenn Close

Self - Narrator (voice)

Charles Kuralt

Self - Narrator (voice)

Ellen Burstyn

Narrator (voice)

William Stanley Merwin

Narrator (voice)

Hal Holbrook

Narrator (voice)

Garrison Keillor

Narrator (voice)

Roy Scheider

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)

Ping Wu

Narrator (voice)

Nicholas Purcell

Charles Adams

Bugsy Siegel

Self (archive footage)

Roger Rees

William Bradford

Richard Thomas

Narrator (voice)

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)

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)

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)

Vladimir Lenin

Self (archive footage)

Dorothy Thompson

Self (archive footage)

Kenneth Anger

Self

Robert Bakker

Self

Bradley Douglas Cook

Alfred Kinsey

Michael Murphy

Narrator

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

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

David Ogden Stiers

Narrator (voice)

Tommy Nelson

Self - Worker

David McCullough

Narrator (voice) / Self - Host

Mary Bacon

Sally Thorpe

Michael Murphy

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

Samuel Barnett

Philip's Schoolmate

Oliver Platt

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Gerry Bamman

Peter Fenner

Linda Hunt

Narrator (voice) / Self - Narrator (voice)

Lauren Bloom

Young Eliza Schuyler

Liev Schreiber

Narrator (voice)

John Ellison Conlee

Shopkeeper Evans

Andre Braugher

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

John Curless

David Hosack

Joe Morton

Narrator (voice)

Michael Cumpsty

James Callender

Julian Bond

Narrator (voice)

Richard Easton

George Washington

Blair Brown

Ellen Wilson (voice) / Narrator (voice)

Peter Gerety

Robert Bartlett

Frances Sternhagen

(voice) / Self (voice)

Daniel Gerroll

Thomas Jefferson

Russell Baker

Narrator (voice)

Neal Huff

Ephraim Slattery

George Plimpton

(voice) / Self (voice)

Neil McGarry

Aaron Burr

Jason Robards

Narrator (voice)

Julia Morrison

Mary Paget

Campbell Scott

Narrator (voice)

Brian Murray

Gouverneur Morris

Sada Thompson

Narrator (voice)

Mark Nelson

Nathaniel Pendleton

Susan Sarandon

Narrator (voice)

Denis O'Hare

Henry Lee

Harris Yulin

Narrator (voice)

Kelli O'Hara

Maria Reynolds

Stacy Keach

Narrator (voice)

Jamie Parker

Philip Hamilton

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Brandon Reilly

Young Hamilton in St. Croix

Robert Dallek

Self

Bridget Regan

Angelica Shippen

Robert J. Thompson

Self

Henry Strozier

John Adams

Mary McDonnell

Narrator (voice)

Michael Stuhlbarg

Officer Stephen Colden

Peter Coyote

Narrator (voice)

Angela Thornton

Old Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

Scott Glenn

Narrator (voice)

Leonardo Cuesta

Plantation Slave St. Croix

Eric Sevareid

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

Joanne Freeman

Self

Irv Drasnin

Narrator (voice)

Kevin R. Hershberger

Continental Soldier

Hume Cronyn

Narrator (voice)

Brían F. O'Byrne

Alexander Hamilton

Robert Redford

Narrator (voice) / Self - Narrator (voice)

John Pagano

Continental Officer

James Avery

Charles Hamilton Houston (voice) / Narrator (voice)

Matthew Arkin

Alexander Bickel (voice)

Joe Mantegna

Narrator (voice)

Robin Miles

Self - Narrator (voice)

Colm Feore

Narrator (voice)

James Hite

Self

Alfre Woodard

Narrator (voice)

Jared Cohen

Self

Dion Graham

Self - Narrator (voice)

Dan Rather

Self (archive footage)

René Auberjonois

Alexander Hamilton (voice) / Woodrow Wilson (voice)

Kate Andersen Brower

Self

Richard Ben Cramer

Narrator (voice)

Ramesh Ponnuru

Self

Morley Safer

Narrator (voice) / Self (archive footage)

Joel K. Goldstein

Self

Lois Smith

(voice)

Rachel Maddow

Self

David Margulies

(voice) / Self (voice)

John D. Feerick

Self

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self / Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Corey Stoll

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Hilary Brown

Self

Benjamin Bratt

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Carole Jerome

Self

Gore Vidal

Self / Self (archive footage)

Stephen Kinzer

Self

Holly Hunter

Mary Lincoln (voice)

James Q. Roberts

Self

David Morse

Abraham Lincoln / Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Barbara Rosen

Self

Walt Disney

Self (archive footage)

Barry Rosen

Self

Don Hahn

Self

Gary Sick

Self

Richard Schickel

Self

Alan Campbell

Josephus Daniels / Other Voices

Don Lusk

Self

Keith David

W.E. Henderson / Other Voices

Ruthie Tompson

Self

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Self

Tom Sito

Self

Norman Lloyd

Self

Neal Gabler

Self

Orson Welles

Self (archive footage)

Steven Watts

Self

Gary Cooper

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Eric Smoodin

Self

Myrna Loy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ron Suskind

Self

Dick Powell

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Donald Sutherland

Narrator (voice)

David McCulloch

Narrator (voice)

Robert Duvall

Narrator (voice)

Helen Gahagan

Self (archive footage)

Sam Grey

Felix Frankfurter (voice)

John Connally

Self

Hal Linden

Narrator (voice)

Lynda Johnson Robb

Self (archive footage)

Anna Deavere Smith

Narrator (voice)

Clark Clifford

Self

Chris Cooper

Narrator (voice)

James Farmer

Self

Stephen Ives

Himself - Director

Daniel Ellsberg

Self

Jesse Owens

Self

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Self

Hilmar Dressler

Self

Barry Goldwater

Self (archive footage)

Jeremy Schaap

Self

Hubert H. Humphrey

Self (archive footage)

Professor Margaret MacMillan

Self

Nicholas Katzenbach

Self

Theodor Michael

Self

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

William Rhoden

Self

Robert McNamara

Self (archive footage)

Harry Edwards

Self

John W. McCormack

Self (archive footage)

Volker Kluge

Self

Hồ Chí Minh

Self (archive footage)

Guy Walters

Self

George Reedy

Self

Rainer Rother

Self

Dean Rusk

Self (archive footage)

Iris Cummings Critchell

Self

Richard B. Russell

Self (archive footage)

David Wallechinsky

Self

Sargent Shriver

Self

Louis Zamperini

Self

Jack Valenti

Self

William J. Baker

Self

Andrew Young

Self

Susan Ware

Self

Sally Chapman

Self

Rafael Medoff

Self

A. Peter Bailey

Self - Harlem Resident

Marlene Owens Rankin

Self

George Palmer Putnam

Self (archive footage)

Beverly Owens Prather

Self

Maya Angelou

Self - Author

David Clay Large

Self

Ossie Davis

Self - Harlem Resident

Louis Stokes

Self

Alex Haley

Self - Biographer

Randy Quaid

Narrator (voice)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

Héctor Elizondo

Narrator (voice)

King George V of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

Morgan Freeman

Narrator (voice)

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Self (archive footage)

Laura Linney

Narrator (voice)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Philip Bosco

Narrator (voice)

H.L. Mencken

Self

Kathy Bates

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Marcos Akiaten

Massasoit

Martin Luther King Jr.

Himself (archive footage)

William Belleau

Wampanoag man

Kate Burton

Narrator

Tonantzin Carmelo

Awashunk

Peter Krause

Narrator

Mark S. Cartier

John Easton

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

William Joseph Elk III

Wampanoag man

Donald Regan

Self

Nicholas Irons

Edward Winslow

Dina Titus

Self

Jill Lepore

Self

Judd Hirsch

(voice)

Jim Loutzenhiser

Josiah Winslow

Al Lewis

Self

Zahn McClarnon

Wampanoag man

J. Edgar Hoover

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

Tatanka Means

Nookau

Kyle MacLachlan

Narrator

Duncan B. Putney

Miles Standish

Ron Vawter

Charles Guiteau

Alan Francis Sullivan

Governor John Carver

Bart Whiteman

James Garfield

Lewis D. Wheeler

Stephen Hopkins

Robert Fields

George Scoville

Jerry Wolf

Wampanoag Man

Adolph Mall

Judge Cox

Michael Greyeyes

Tecumseh

Marty McDonough

District Attorney Cockhill

Alex Meraz

Warrior

Kevin Murray

Mr Jocelyn

Billy Merasty

Warrior

Steven Conn

Self

Thosh Collins

Warrior

Amelia Earhart

Self / Self (archive footage)

Chevez Ezaneh

Young Tecumseh

Walter Cronkite

Self / Self (archive footage)

Lawrence Santiago

Warrior

Wes Studi

Major Ridge / Warrior in Canoe

Buffalo Bill Cody

Self

Marc Seifer

Self

Bob Boze Bell

Self - Writer

Jane Alcorn

Self

Peter Dodson

Self - Paleontologist

Harold Clark

Self

Jacques Gauthier

Self - Paleontologist

Peter Fisher

Self

Timothy Rowe

Self - Paleontologist

Samantha Hunt

Self

Robert Bakker

Self

Jill Jonnes

Self

John Wesley Powell

Self

John M. Staudenmaier

Self

William F. Cody

Self

John Mahoney

(voice)

Charles Cabell

Self - General, CIA Deputy Director (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self / Self (archive footage)

Evan Thomas

Self - Writer

Ronnie Dugger

Self

Michael Dobbs

Self

Lady Bird Johnson

Self

Nikita Khrushchev

Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

David Nasaw

Self

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage)

Stephanie Coontz

Self

Eleanor Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Rick Perlstein

Self

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Jann Wenner

Self

Paul Bosche

Reenactor

Dan T. Carter

Self

Alfredo del Rio

Reenactor

Mark Kurlansky

Self

John DiGiacomo

Reenactor

Phyllis Schlafly

Self

Dana Gaiser

Reenactor

Todd Gitlin

Self

Noah Goldman

Police Officer

Nancy Koehn

Self

Virginia Apuzzo

Self

Carmenita Higginbotham

Self

Martin Boyce

Self

Richard M. Sherman

Self

David Carter

Self

Floyd Norman

Self

Raymond Castro

Self

Ron Miller

Self

William Eskridge

Self

Marty Sklar

Self

Danny Garvin

Self

Alice Davis

Self

Jerry Hoose

Self

Robert Givens

Self

Ed Koch

Self

John Glenn

Self (archive footage)

Doric Wilson

Self

John Glenn

Self (archive footage)

Truman Capote

Self (archive footage)

Jefferson Cowie

Self

Liberace

Self (archive footage)

Adam Green

Self

John V. Lindsay

Self (archive footage)

Linda Clifford

Self

George Putnam

Self (archive footage)

Ayana Contreras

Self

Robert Caro

Self / Self - Writer

Darlene Jackson

Self

Tim Naftali

Self

Felipe Rose

Self

Roy Edward Disney

Self

Paul Natkin

Self

Scott Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Carter

Self (archive footage)

Gordon Cooper

Self (archive footage)

Will Lyman

Self - Narrator (voice)

Gus Grissom

Self (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger

Self