American Experience

Susan Douglas

Self

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

John Ellison Conlee

Shopkeeper Evans

Lauren Bloom

Young Eliza Schuyler

Gerry Bamman

Peter Fenner

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

Mark Nelson

Nathaniel Pendleton

Denis O'Hare

Henry Lee

Kelli O'Hara

Maria Reynolds

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

Matthew Arkin

Alexander Bickel (voice)

John Pagano

Continental Officer

Brían F. O'Byrne

Alexander Hamilton

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks

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

John Thomas Scopes

Self

Clarence Darrow

Self

William Jennings Bryan

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

Ryan Lewis

Wealthy Plantation Owner

Emily Podleski

Sarah Northrup

Brad D. Smith

Senator

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)

Harold Clark

Self

Jane Alcorn

Self

Marc Seifer

Self

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

John Maxtone-Graham

Self

Hilary Brown

Self

Alan Francis Sullivan

Governor John Carver

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

Alfredo del Rio

Reenactor

Paul Bosche

Reenactor

Jim Dunham

Self - Historian

Lewis D. Wheeler

Stephen Hopkins

Jerry Wolf

Wampanoag Man

Michael Greyeyes

Tecumseh

Alex Meraz

Warrior

Billy Merasty

Warrior

Thosh Collins

Warrior

Chevez Ezaneh

Young Tecumseh

Lawrence Santiago

Warrior

Bob Boze Bell

Self - Writer

Jerry Hoose

Self

Ed Koch

Self

Doric Wilson

Self

Alice Davis

Self

Robert Givens

Self

Jefferson Cowie

Self

Adam Green

Self

Linda Clifford

Self

Ayana Contreras

Self

Darlene Jackson

Self

Felipe Rose

Self

Paul Natkin

Self

Marty Sklar

Self

Ron Miller

Self

Floyd Norman

Self

Truman Capote

Self (archive footage)

Liberace

Self (archive footage)

John V. Lindsay

Self (archive footage)

George Putnam

Self (archive footage)

Tim Naftali

Self

David Nasaw

Self

Nancy Koehn

Self

Carmenita Higginbotham

Self

Richard M. Sherman

Self

Jimmy Carter

Self (archive footage)

Carole Jerome

Self

Lynda Johnson Robb

Self (archive footage)

Stokely Carmichael

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

John Connally

Self

Helen Gahagan

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

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

David McCulloch

Narrator (voice)

Will Lyman

Narrator (voice)

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Robert McNamara

Self (archive footage)

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

Marcos Akiaten

Massasoit

George Palmer Putnam

Self (archive footage)

Sally Chapman

Self

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

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage)

Jack Valenti

Self

Andrew Young

Self

Duncan B. Putney

Miles Standish

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Phyllis Schlafly

Self

Todd Gitlin

Self

Walt Disney

Self (archive footage)

Don Hahn

Self

Richard Schickel

Self

Don Lusk

Self

Ruthie Tompson

Self

Tom Sito

Self

Neal Gabler

Self

Mark Kurlansky

Self

Robert A. Caro

Self

Dan T. Carter

Self

Donald Regan

Self

David Margulies

(voice) / Self (voice)

Corey Stoll

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Benjamin Bratt

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Robert Dallek

Self

Stephanie Coontz

Self

Rick Perlstein

Self

Jann Wenner

Self

Steven Watts

Self

Eric Smoodin

Self

Ron Suskind

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

Jeremy Schaap

Self

Hilmar Dressler

Self

Jesse Owens

Self

Mandy Patinkin

Narrator (voice)

Carl Lumbly

Narrator (voice)

Keith Carradine

Narrator (voice)

Irv Drasnin

Narrator (voice)

Ruby Dee

Narrator (voice)

Hal Holbrook

Narrator (voice)

Garrison Keillor

Narrator (voice)

Roy Scheider

Narrator (voice)

Chris Cooper

Narrator (voice)

Louis Zamperini

Self

David Ogden Stiers

Narrator (voice)

Mary McDonnell

Narrator (voice)

James Avery

Charles Hamilton Houston (voice) / Narrator (voice)

Campbell Scott

Narrator (voice)

Frances Sternhagen

(voice) / Self (voice)

Peter Coyote

Narrator (voice)

Stacy Keach

Narrator (voice)

Richard Ben Cramer

Narrator (voice)

Jason Robards

Narrator (voice)

George Plimpton

(voice) / Self (voice)

Julian Bond

Narrator (voice)

Andre Braugher

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

Susan Sarandon

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

David McCullough

Host / Narrator (voice) / Self

Michael Murphy

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Oliver Platt

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Linda Hunt

Narrator (voice)

Liev Schreiber

Narrator (voice)

Blair Brown

Ellen Wilson (voice) / Narrator (voice)

Joe Morton

Narrator (voice)

Russell Baker

Narrator (voice)

Julian Bond

Narrator (voice)

Donald Sutherland

Narrator (voice)

Alfre Woodard

Narrator (voice)

Dion Graham

Narrator (voice)

Eric Sevareid

Himself / Narrator (voice)

Hume Cronyn

Narrator (voice)

Sam Grey

Felix Frankfurter (voice)

Joe Mantegna

Narrator (voice)

Hal Linden

Narrator (voice)

Ellen Burstyn

Narrator (voice)

Jeffrey Wright

Narrator (voice)

Colm Feore

Narrator (voice)

Stephen Ives

Himself - Director

Robert Duvall

Narrator (voice)

Courtney B. Vance

Narrator (voice)

Scott Glenn

Narrator (voice)

Robert Redford

Narrator (voice)

Sada Thompson

Narrator (voice)

Anna Deavere Smith

Narrator (voice)

Morley Safer

Narrator (voice) / Self (archive footage)

Harris Yulin

Narrator (voice)

Richard Thomas

Narrator (voice)

Randy Quaid

Narrator (voice)

Héctor Elizondo

Narrator (voice)

Morgan Freeman

Narrator (voice)

René Auberjonois

Alexander Hamilton (voice) / Woodrow Wilson (voice)

William J. Baker

Self

Brian Paulette

Frank James

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

Vanessa Williams

Narrator (voice)

Lea Salonga

Narrator

Joanna Rhinehart

Narrator

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

Timothy Hutton

(voice)

Beverly Gage

Self

William Hitchcock

Self

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

Bart Whiteman

James Garfield

Ron Vawter

Charles Guiteau

Kyle MacLachlan

Narrator

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)

Mary Pickford

Self

Susan Ware

Self

Lois Smith

(voice)

J. Edgar Hoover

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

Amelia Earhart

Self / Self (archive footage)

Walter Cronkite

Self / Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self / Self (archive footage)

Wes Studi

Major Ridge / Warrior in Canoe

Ronnie Dugger

Self

Lady Bird Johnson

Self

Gore Vidal

Self / Self (archive footage)

Dina Titus

Self

J. Hunter

Self

Peter Krause

Narrator

Rafael Medoff

Self

Marlene Owens Rankin

Self

Beverly Owens Prather

Self

David Clay Large

Self

Louis Stokes

Self

Laura Linney

Narrator (voice)

Kathy Bates

Narrator / Narrator (voice)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Himself (archive footage)

Kate Burton

Narrator

Robert J. Thompson

Self

Roy Edward Disney

Self

Scott Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

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)

Judith Light

Narrator (voice)

Brian Dennehy

Aaron Burr (voice)

F. Murray Abraham

Narrator

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

Mitchell McCann

Jesse James