American Experience

David Ogden Stiers

Narrator (voice)

David McCullough

Narrator (voice)

Michael Murphy

Narrator (voice)

Linda Hunt

Narrator (voice)

Oliver Platt

Narrator (voice)

Liev Schreiber

Narrator (voice)

Joe Morton

Narrator (voice)

Julian Bond

Narrator (voice)

Jason Robards

Narrator (voice)

Blair Brown

Narrator (voice)

Frances Sternhagen

(voice)

Holly Hunter

Mary Lincoln (voice)

David Morse

Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Campbell Scott

Narrator (voice)

Andre Braugher

Narrator

George Plimpton

(voice)

Stacy Keach

Narrator (voice)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Dion Graham

Self - Narrator (voice)

René Auberjonois

Woodrow Wilson (voice)

Susan Sarandon

Narrator (voice)

David Margulies

(voice)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Benjamin Bratt

Narrator (voice)

Corey Stoll

Narrator (voice)

Peter Coyote

Narrator (voice)

Alfre Woodard

Narrator (voice)

Randy Quaid

Narrator (voice)

Héctor Elizondo

Narrator (voice)

Morgan Freeman

Narrator (voice)

Scott Glenn

Narrator (voice)

Laura Linney

Narrator (voice)

Robert Redford

Self - Narrator (voice)

James Avery

Charles Hamilton Houston (voice)

Eric Sevareid

Self - Narrator (voice)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Himself (archive footage)

Kate Burton

Narrator

Peter Krause

Narrator

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Donald Regan

Self

Dina Titus

Self

Lois Smith

(voice)

Morley Safer

Self (archive footage)

Kathy Bates

Narrator (voice)

Walter Cronkite

Self

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Amelia Earhart

Self (archive footage)

Wes Studi

Warrior in Canoe

Lady Bird Johnson

Self

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Gore Vidal

Self

Walt Disney

Self (archive footage)

Don Hahn

Self

Tom Sito

Self

Steven Watts

Self

Ron Suskind

Self

F. Murray Abraham

Self - Narrator (voice)

Mary McDonnell

Narrator (voice)

Donald Sutherland

Narrator (voice)

Brian Dennehy

Aaron Burr (voice)

Mandy Patinkin

Narrator (voice)

Judith Light

Narrator (voice)

Tom Hanks

Narrator (voice)

Carl Lumbly

Narrator (voice)

Marion Ross

Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)

Cherry Jones

Narrator (voice)

Keith Carradine

Narrator (voice)

Courtney B. Vance

Narrator (voice)

Robert Duvall

Narrator (voice)

Glenn Close

Self - Narrator (voice)

Charles Kuralt

Self - Narrator (voice)

Hume Cronyn

Narrator (voice)

Ruby Dee

Narrator (voice)

Philip Bosco

Narrator (voice)

Joe Mantegna

Narrator (voice)

Hal Linden

Narrator (voice)

Ellen Burstyn

Narrator (voice)

Hal Holbrook

Narrator (voice)

Garrison Keillor

Narrator (voice)

Roy Scheider

Narrator (voice)

Anna Deavere Smith

Narrator (voice)

Harris Yulin

Narrator (voice)

Simon Russell Beale

John Adams (voice)

Christopher Plummer

Narrator

Kenneth Branagh

Narrator (voice)

Jeffrey Wright

Narrator (voice)

Colm Feore

Narrator (voice)

Ping Wu

Narrator (voice)

Chris Cooper

Narrator (voice)

Nicholas Purcell

Charles Adams

Roger Rees

William Bradford

Richard Thomas

Narrator (voice)

Sada Thompson

Narrator (voice)

Len Cariou

Narrator (voice)

Stephen Ives

Himself - Director

Jesse Owens

Self

Jeremy Schaap

Self

Harry Edwards

Self

Guy Walters

Self

Rainer Rother

Self

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)

Chris Dodd

Self

Lee Wilkof

Dr. Walter Freeman (voice)

Joanna Merlin

Family Member (voice)

Judd Hirsch

(voice)

Al Lewis

Self

Timothy Hutton

(voice)

Sarah Churchwell

Self

Vladimir Lenin

Self (archive footage)

Kyle MacLachlan

Narrator

Ron Vawter

Charles Guiteau

Kevin Murray

Mr Jocelyn

Mary Pickford

Self

Douglas Fairbanks

Self

Charlie Chaplin

Self

D.W. Griffith

Self

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

Self

Jack Pickford

Self

Lottie Pickford

Self

Hermann Göring

Self (archive footage)

Benjamin Ferencz

Self

Clarence Darrow

Self

Gutzon Borglum

Self

Theodore Roosevelt

Self

Jackson Walker

Daniel Ross

Josh Blaylock

Young John Ross

William J. Finley

Elias Boudinot

Wesley French

John Ridge

Robert Hatch

Missionary

Ryan Lewis

Wealthy Plantation Owner

Emily Podleski

Sarah Northrup

Robert Lansing

Narrator

Louis Gossett Jr.

Self - Narrator

Denzel Washington

Self - Narrator

Matthew Broderick

Jack Binns (voice)

Paul Guilfoyle

James Connolly (voice)

Bill Paxton

Self - Reader (voice)

John Mahoney

(voice)

Mary Bacon

Sally Thorpe

Samuel Barnett

Philip's Schoolmate

Gerry Bamman

Peter Fenner

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

Brian Murray

Gouverneur Morris

Mark Nelson

Nathaniel Pendleton

Denis O'Hare

Henry Lee

Kelli O'Hara

Maria Reynolds

Jamie Parker

Philip Hamilton

Bridget Regan

Angelica Shippen

Henry Strozier

John Adams

Michael Stuhlbarg

Officer Stephen Colden

Leonardo Cuesta

Plantation Slave St. Croix

Kevin R. Hershberger

Continental Soldier

Brían F. O'Byrne

Alexander Hamilton

Matthew Arkin

Alexander Bickel (voice)

Dan Rather

Self (archive footage)

Rachel Maddow

Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Alan Campbell

Josephus Daniels / Other Voices

Keith David

W.E. Henderson / Other Voices

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Self

Norman Lloyd

Self

Orson Welles

Self (archive footage)

Gary Cooper

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Myrna Loy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dick Powell

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Helen Gahagan

Self (archive footage)

John Connally

Self

Lynda Johnson Robb

Self (archive footage)

James Farmer

Self

Daniel Ellsberg

Self

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Self

Barry Goldwater

Self (archive footage)

Hubert H. Humphrey

Self (archive footage)

Nicholas Katzenbach

Self

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Robert McNamara

Self (archive footage)

Hồ Chí Minh

Self (archive footage)

Jack Valenti

Self

Maya Angelou

Self - Author

Ossie Davis

Self - Harlem Resident

Alex Haley

Self - Biographer

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

King George V of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

H.L. Mencken

Self

William Belleau

Wampanoag man

Tonantzin Carmelo

Awashunk

Mark S. Cartier

John Easton

William Joseph Elk III

Wampanoag man

Nicholas Irons

Edward Winslow

Zahn McClarnon

Wampanoag man

Tatanka Means

Nookau

Lewis D. Wheeler

Stephen Hopkins

Michael Greyeyes

Tecumseh

Dwier Brown

Alex Meraz

Warrior

Billy Merasty

Warrior

Thosh Collins

Warrior

Robert Bakker

Self

Josh Hamilton

Carolyn McCormick

Ed Koch

Self

Truman Capote

Self (archive footage)

Liberace

Self (archive footage)

John V. Lindsay

Self (archive footage)

Michael Dobbs

Self

Nikita Khrushchev

Self (archive footage)

Rick Perlstein

Self

Jann Wenner

Self

Phyllis Schlafly

Self

Roy Edward Disney

Self

Richard M. Sherman

Self

Floyd Norman

Self

Ron Miller

Self

Scott Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

Gordon Cooper

Self (archive footage)

John Hope Franklin

Felipe Rose

Self

Jimmy Carter

Self (archive footage)