experiencia americana

D.W. Griffith

Self

Bart Whiteman

James Garfield

Ron Vawter

Charles Guiteau

Kyle MacLachlan

Narrator

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Dorothy Thompson

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

Self (archive footage)

Fritz Kuhn

Self (archive footage)

Leah Wright Rigeur

Self

Charles Coughlin

Self

Steven Ross

Self

Robert Fields

George Scoville

Adolph Mall

Judge Cox

Marty McDonough

District Attorney Cockhill

Charlie Chaplin

Self

Jeanine Basinger

Self

Douglas Fairbanks

Self

Mary Pickford

Self

Bradley Douglas Cook

Alfred Kinsey

Kenneth Anger

Self

Steven Conn

Self

Michael Murphy

Narrator

Robert Bakker

Self

Kevin Murray

Mr Jocelyn

Bradley Hart

Self

Sarah Churchwell

Self

William Hitchcock

Self

Lea Salonga

Narrator

Joanna Rhinehart

Narrator

André Holland

Narrator

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Narrator

Len Cariou

Narrator (voice)

Bugsy Siegel

Self (archive footage)

Nicholas Purcell

Charles Adams

Martin Luther King Jr.

Himself (archive footage)

Ping Wu

Narrator (voice)

Kathy Bates

Narrator (voice)

Vanessa Williams

Narrator (voice)

Bahni Turpin

Zora Neale Hurston (voice)

J. Hunter

Self

Beverly Gage

Self

Timothy Hutton

(voice)

Al Lewis

Self

Judd Hirsch

(voice)

Joanna Merlin

Family Member (voice)

Lee Wilkof

Dr. Walter Freeman (voice)

Chris Dodd

Self

Christine Jorgensen

Self (archive footage)

Leo J. Ryan

Self (archive footage)

Jim Jones

Self (archive footage)

Kenneth Branagh

Narrator (voice)

Amelia Earhart

Self

Bill Paxton

Self - Reader (voice)

Harold Clark

Self

Jane Alcorn

Self

Marc Seifer

Self

Robert Lansing

Narrator

Richard Rhodes

Self

Edward Teller

Self

Curtis LeMay

Self

Curtis LeMay

Self (archive footage)

Peter Haydu

Russian voices (voice)

Hans Bethe

Self

Peter Fisher

Self

Samantha Hunt

Self

Jill Jonnes

Self

Charles A. Haas

Self

Phil Petersen

Self

Susan Douglas

Self

John Maxtone-Graham

Self

Paul Guilfoyle

James Connolly (voice)

Stephanie Castellarin

Hallie Davis (voice)

Matthew Broderick

Jack Binns (voice)

Denzel Washington

Self - Narrator

Louis Gossett Jr.

Self - Narrator

John M. Staudenmaier

Self

Steve Warren

Missionary

Wes Studi

Major Ridge

Frederick Stuart

John Ross

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self

John Thomas Scopes

Self

Clarence Darrow

Self

William Jennings Bryan

Self

Benjamin Ferencz

Self

Robert Jackson

Self

Hermann Göring

Self

Walter Cronkite

Self

Lottie Pickford

Self

Jack Pickford

Self

Gutzon Borglum

Self

Theodore Roosevelt

Self

Jackson Walker

Daniel Ross

Brad D. Smith

Senator

Emily Podleski

Sarah Northrup

Ryan Lewis

Wealthy Plantation Owner

Robert Hatch

Missionary

Wesley French

John Ridge

William J. Finley

Elias Boudinot

Kelly Finley

Sara

Carla-Rae

Suzanna Ridge

Benjamin Bratt

Narrator (voice)

Josh Blaylock

Young John Ross

Charles "Buddy" Rogers

Self

Keith Carradine

Narrator (voice)

Hume Cronyn

Narrator (voice)

Eric Sevareid

Himself / Narrator (voice)

Robert Duvall

Narrator (voice)

Courtney B. Vance

Narrator (voice)

Scott Glenn

Narrator (voice)

Morgan Freeman

Narrator (voice)

Hector Elizondo

Narrator (voice)

Randy Quaid

Narrator (voice)

Richard Thomas

Narrator (voice)

Harris Yulin

Narrator (voice)

Sam Grey

Felix Frankfurter (voice)

Joe Mantegna

Narrator (voice)

Hal Linden

Narrator (voice)

Carl Lumbly

Narrator (voice)

Mandy Patinkin

Narrator (voice)

David Margulies

(voice) / Self (voice)

René Auberjonois

Alexander Hamilton (voice) / Woodrow Wilson (voice)

Stephen Ives

Himself - Director

Colm Feore

Narrator (voice)

Jeffrey Wright

Narrator (voice)

Morley Safer

Narrator (voice)

Anna Deavere Smith

Narrator (voice)

Ellen Burstyn

Narrator (voice)

Sada Thompson

Narrator (voice)

Robert Redford

Narrator (voice)

Dion Graham

Narrator (voice)

Oliver Platt

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Russell Baker

Narrator (voice)

Susan Sarandon

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Liev Schreiber

Narrator (voice)

Julian Bond

Narrator (voice)

Joe Morton

Narrator (voice)

Blair Brown

Ellen Wilson (voice) / Narrator (voice)

Linda Hunt

Narrator (voice)

Michael Murphy

Narrator (voice)

David Ogden Stiers

Narrator (voice)

Andre Braugher

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Julian Bond

Narrator (voice)

Mary McDonnell

Narrator (voice)

Alfre Woodard

Narrator (voice)

Donald Sutherland

Narrator (voice)

George Plimpton

(voice) / Self (voice)

Jason Robards

Narrator (voice)

Richard Ben Cramer

Narrator (voice)

Stacy Keach

Narrator (voice)

Peter Coyote

Narrator (voice)

Frances Sternhagen

(voice) / Self (voice)

Campbell Scott

Narrator (voice)

James Avery

Charles Hamilton Houston (voice) / Narrator (voice)

David McCullough

Narrator (voice) / Self

Irv Drasnin

Narrator (voice)

Marilyn Spanier

Annie Oakley (voice)

Brian Dennehy

Aaron Burr (voice)

F. Murray Abraham

Narrator

Roger Rees

William Bradford

Will Lyman

Narrator (voice)

Charles Kuralt

Narrator (voice)

Lois Smith

(voice)

Dina Titus

Self

Donald Regan

Self

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Peter Krause

Narrator

Judith Light

Narrator (voice)

Tom Hanks

Narrator (voice)

Marion Ross

Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)

Christopher Plummer

Narrator

Brian Paulette

Frank James

Mitchell McCann

Jesse James

Lisa Emond

Abigail Adams (voice)

Simon Russell Beale

John Adams (voice)

William Stanley Merwin

Narrator (voice)

Philip Bosco

Narrator (voice)

Charles Kuralt

Narrator (voice)

Glenn Close

Narrator (voice)

Cherry Jones

Narrator (voice)

Kate Burton

Narrator

Laura Linney

Narrator (voice)

Louis Stokes

Self

William Rhoden

Self

Theodor Michael

Self

Professor Margaret MacMillan

Self

Jeremy Schaap

Self

Hilmar Dressler

Self

Jesse Owens

Self

Chris Cooper

Narrator (voice)

Roy Scheider

Narrator (voice)

Garrison Keillor

Narrator (voice)

Hal Holbrook

Narrator (voice)

Harry Edwards

Self

Volker Kluge

Self

Guy Walters

Self

David Clay Large

Self

Beverly Owens Prather

Self

Marlene Owens Rankin

Self

Rafael Medoff

Self

Susan Ware

Self

William J. Baker

Self

Louis Zamperini

Self

David Wallechinsky

Self

Iris Cummings Critchell

Self

Rainer Rother

Self

Ruby Dee

Narrator (voice)