American Experience

J. Edgar Hoover

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

Ron Miller

Self

Amelia Earhart

Self / Self (archive footage)

Marty Sklar

Self

Walter Cronkite

Self / Self (archive footage)

Alice Davis

Self

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self / Self (archive footage)

Robert Givens

Self

Wes Studi

Major Ridge / Warrior in Canoe

Jefferson Cowie

Self

Richard Nixon

Self / Self (archive footage)

Adam Green

Self

Ronnie Dugger

Self

Linda Clifford

Self

Lady Bird Johnson

Self

Ayana Contreras

Self

Gore Vidal

Self / Self (archive footage)

Darlene Jackson

Self

Roy Edward Disney

Self

Felipe Rose

Self

Scott Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

Paul Natkin

Self

Gordon Cooper

Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Carter

Self (archive footage)

John Glenn

Self (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger

Self

Gus Grissom

Self (archive footage)

Frank Snepp

Self

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)

Philip Bosco

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)

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)

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

Robert Bakker

Self

Michael Murphy

Narrator

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.

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

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

David Ogden Stiers

Narrator (voice)

Neil McGarry

Aaron Burr

David McCullough

Host / Narrator (voice) / Self

Julia Morrison

Mary Paget

Michael Murphy

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

Brian Murray

Gouverneur Morris

Oliver Platt

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Mark Nelson

Nathaniel Pendleton

Linda Hunt

Narrator (voice)

Denis O'Hare

Henry Lee

Russell Baker

Narrator (voice)

Kelli O'Hara

Maria Reynolds

Liev Schreiber

Narrator (voice)

Jamie Parker

Philip Hamilton

Blair Brown

Ellen Wilson (voice) / Narrator (voice)

Brandon Reilly

Young Hamilton in St. Croix

Joe Morton

Narrator (voice)

Bridget Regan

Angelica Shippen

Julian Bond

Narrator (voice)

Henry Strozier

John Adams

Susan Sarandon

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Michael Stuhlbarg

Officer Stephen Colden

Andre Braugher

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

Angela Thornton

Old Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

Julian Bond

Narrator (voice)

Leonardo Cuesta

Plantation Slave St. Croix

Mary McDonnell

Narrator (voice)

Joanne Freeman

Self

James Avery

Charles Hamilton Houston (voice) / Narrator (voice)

Kevin R. Hershberger

Continental Soldier

Campbell Scott

Narrator (voice)

Brían F. O'Byrne

Alexander Hamilton

Frances Sternhagen

(voice) / Self (voice)

John Pagano

Continental Officer

Peter Coyote

Narrator (voice)

Matthew Arkin

Alexander Bickel (voice)

Stacy Keach

Narrator (voice)

Robin Miles

Self - Narrator (voice)

Richard Ben Cramer

Narrator (voice)

James Hite

Self

Jason Robards

Narrator (voice)

Jared Cohen

Self

George Plimpton

(voice) / Self (voice)

Dan Rather

Self (archive footage)

Donald Sutherland

Narrator (voice)

Kate Andersen Brower

Self

Alfre Woodard

Narrator (voice)

Ramesh Ponnuru

Self

Dion Graham

Narrator (voice)

Joel K. Goldstein

Self

Robert Redford

Narrator (voice)

Rachel Maddow

Self

Sada Thompson

Narrator (voice)

John D. Feerick

Self

Anna Deavere Smith

Narrator (voice)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Morley Safer

Narrator (voice) / Self (archive footage)

Hilary Brown

Self

Harris Yulin

Narrator (voice)

Carole Jerome

Self

Robert J. Thompson

Self

Stephen Kinzer

Self

Richard Thomas

Narrator (voice)

James Q. Roberts

Self

Randy Quaid

Narrator (voice)

Barbara Rosen

Self

Héctor Elizondo

Narrator (voice)

Barry Rosen

Self

Morgan Freeman

Narrator (voice)

Gary Sick

Self

Scott Glenn

Narrator (voice)

Alan Campbell

Josephus Daniels / Other Voices

Courtney B. Vance

Narrator (voice)

Keith David

W.E. Henderson / Other Voices

Robert Duvall

Narrator (voice)

David McCulloch

Narrator (voice)

Eric Sevareid

Himself / Narrator (voice)

Will Lyman

Narrator (voice)

Hume Cronyn

Narrator (voice)

Helen Gahagan

Self (archive footage)

Sam Grey

Felix Frankfurter (voice)

John Connally

Self

Joe Mantegna

Narrator (voice)

Lynda Johnson Robb

Self (archive footage)

Hal Linden

Narrator (voice)

Stokely Carmichael

Self (archive footage)

Ellen Burstyn

Narrator (voice)

Clark Clifford

Self

Jeffrey Wright

Narrator (voice)

James Farmer

Self

Colm Feore

Narrator (voice)

Daniel Ellsberg

Self

Stephen Ives

Himself - Director

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Self

René Auberjonois

Alexander Hamilton (voice) / Woodrow Wilson (voice)

Barry Goldwater

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Hubert H. Humphrey

Self (archive footage)

Donald Regan

Self

Nicholas Katzenbach

Self

David Margulies

(voice) / Self (voice)

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Corey Stoll

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Benjamin Bratt

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Robert McNamara

Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

John W. McCormack

Self (archive footage)

Robert Dallek

Self

Hồ Chí Minh

Self (archive footage)

Stephanie Coontz

Self

George Reedy

Self

Rick Perlstein

Self

Dean Rusk

Self (archive footage)

Jann Wenner

Self

Richard B. Russell

Self (archive footage)

Dan T. Carter

Self

Sargent Shriver

Self

Robert Caro

Self

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage)

Mark Kurlansky

Self

Jack Valenti

Self

Phyllis Schlafly

Self

Andrew Young

Self

Todd Gitlin

Self

Sally Chapman

Self

Walt Disney

Self (archive footage)

George Palmer Putnam

Self (archive footage)

Don Hahn

Self

Marcos Akiaten

Massasoit

Richard Schickel

Self

William Belleau

Wampanoag man

Don Lusk

Self

Tonantzin Carmelo

Awashunk

Ruthie Tompson

Self

Mark S. Cartier

John Easton

Tom Sito

Self

William Joseph Elk III

Wampanoag man

Neal Gabler

Self

Nicholas Irons

Edward Winslow

Steven Watts

Self

Jill Lepore

Self

Eric Smoodin

Self

Jim Loutzenhiser

Josiah Winslow

Ron Suskind

Self

Zahn McClarnon

Wampanoag man

Mandy Patinkin

Narrator (voice)

Tatanka Means

Nookau

Carl Lumbly

Narrator (voice)

Duncan B. Putney

Miles Standish

Keith Carradine

Narrator (voice)

Alan Francis Sullivan

Governor John Carver

Irv Drasnin

Narrator (voice)

Lewis D. Wheeler

Stephen Hopkins

Ruby Dee

Narrator (voice)

Jerry Wolf

Wampanoag Man

Hal Holbrook

Narrator (voice)

Michael Greyeyes

Tecumseh

Garrison Keillor

Narrator (voice)

Alex Meraz

Warrior

Roy Scheider

Narrator (voice)

Billy Merasty

Warrior

Chris Cooper

Narrator (voice)

Thosh Collins

Warrior

Jesse Owens

Self

Chevez Ezaneh

Young Tecumseh

Hilmar Dressler

Self

Lawrence Santiago

Warrior

Jeremy Schaap

Self

Bob Boze Bell

Self - Writer

Professor Margaret MacMillan

Self

Jim Dunham

Self - Historian

Theodor Michael

Self

Paul Bosche

Reenactor

William Rhoden

Self

Alfredo del Rio

Reenactor

Harry Edwards

Self

John DiGiacomo

Reenactor

Volker Kluge

Self

Dana Gaiser

Reenactor

Guy Walters

Self

Noah Goldman

Police Officer

Rainer Rother

Self

Virginia Apuzzo

Self

Iris Cummings Critchell

Self

Martin Boyce

Self

David Wallechinsky

Self

David Carter

Self

Louis Zamperini

Self

Raymond Castro

Self

William J. Baker

Self

William Eskridge

Self

Susan Ware

Self

Danny Garvin

Self

Rafael Medoff

Self

Jerry Hoose

Self

Marlene Owens Rankin

Self

Ed Koch

Self

Beverly Owens Prather

Self

Doric Wilson

Self

David Clay Large

Self

Truman Capote

Self (archive footage)

Louis Stokes

Self

Liberace

Self (archive footage)

Laura Linney

Narrator (voice)

John V. Lindsay

Self (archive footage)

Kathy Bates

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

George Putnam

Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Himself (archive footage)

Tim Naftali

Self

Kate Burton

Narrator

David Nasaw

Self

Peter Krause

Narrator

Nancy Koehn

Self

J. Hunter

Self

Carmenita Higginbotham

Self

Dina Titus

Self

Richard M. Sherman

Self

Lois Smith

(voice)

Floyd Norman

Self