American Experience (1988)
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Cast
David Ogden Stiers
Narrator (voice) (31 episodes)
David McCullough
Narrator (voice) (18 episodes)
Michael Murphy
Narrator (voice) (14 episodes)
Linda Hunt
Narrator (voice) (12 episodes)
Oliver Platt
Narrator (voice) (12 episodes)
Liev Schreiber
Narrator (voice) (8 episodes)
Joe Morton
Narrator (voice) (8 episodes)
Julian Bond
Narrator (voice) (8 episodes)
Jason Robards
Narrator (voice) (7 episodes)
Blair Brown
Narrator (voice) (7 episodes)
Frances Sternhagen
(voice) (6 episodes)
Campbell Scott
Narrator (voice) (5 episodes)
Andre Braugher
Narrator (5 episodes)
George Plimpton
(voice) (5 episodes)
Stacy Keach
Narrator (voice) (4 episodes)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage) (4 episodes)
Dion Graham
Self - Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)
René Auberjonois
Woodrow Wilson (voice) (3 episodes)
Susan Sarandon
Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)
David Margulies
(voice) (3 episodes)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage) (3 episodes)
Benjamin Bratt
Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)
Corey Stoll
Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)
Holly Hunter
Mary Lincoln (voice) (3 episodes)
David Morse
Abraham Lincoln (3 episodes)
Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Alfre Woodard
Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Randy Quaid
Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Héctor Elizondo
Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Morgan Freeman
Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Scott Glenn
Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Laura Linney
Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Robert Redford
Self - Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
James Avery
Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Eric Sevareid
Self (2 episodes)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Himself (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Kate Burton
Narrator (2 episodes)
Peter Krause
Narrator (2 episodes)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Donald Regan
Self (2 episodes)
Dina Titus
Self (2 episodes)
Lois Smith
(voice) (2 episodes)
Morley Safer
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Kathy Bates
Narrator (2 episodes)
Walter Cronkite
Self (2 episodes)
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (voice) (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Amelia Earhart
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Wes Studi
Major Ridge (2 episodes)
Lady Bird Johnson
Self (2 episodes)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Gore Vidal
Self (2 episodes)
Richard Nixon
Self (2 episodes)
Walt Disney
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Don Hahn
Self (2 episodes)
Tom Sito
Self (2 episodes)
Steven Watts
Self (2 episodes)
Ron Suskind
Self (2 episodes)
F. Murray Abraham
Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Mary McDonnell
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Donald Sutherland
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Brian Dennehy
Aaron Burr (voice) (1 episodes)
Mandy Patinkin
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Judith Light
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Tom Hanks
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Carl Lumbly
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Marion Ross
Edith Bolling-Galt (voice) (1 episodes)
Cherry Jones
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Keith Carradine
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Courtney B. Vance
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Robert Duvall
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Glenn Close
Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Charles Kuralt
Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Hume Cronyn
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Ruby Dee
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Philip Bosco
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Joe Mantegna
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Hal Linden
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Ellen Burstyn
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Hal Holbrook
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Garrison Keillor
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Roy Scheider
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Anna Deavere Smith
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Harris Yulin
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Simon Russell Beale
John Adams (voice) (1 episodes)
Christopher Plummer
Narrator (1 episodes)
Kenneth Branagh
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Jeffrey Wright
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Colm Feore
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Ping Wu
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Chris Cooper
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Nicholas Purcell
Charles Adams (1 episodes)
Bugsy Siegel
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Roger Rees
William Bradford (1 episodes)
Richard Thomas
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Sada Thompson
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Len Cariou
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Stephen Ives
Himself - Director (1 episodes)
Jesse Owens
Self (1 episodes)
Jeremy Schaap
Self (1 episodes)
Harry Edwards
Self (1 episodes)
Guy Walters
Self (1 episodes)
Rainer Rother
Self (1 episodes)
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Narrator (1 episodes)
André Holland
Narrator (1 episodes)
Joanna Rhinehart
Narrator (1 episodes)
Lea Salonga
Narrator (1 episodes)
Vanessa Williams
Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Bahni Turpin
Zora Neale Hurston (voice) (1 episodes)
Jim Jones
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Leo J. Ryan
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Chris Dodd
Self (1 episodes)
Lee Wilkof
Dr. Walter Freeman (voice) (1 episodes)
Joanna Merlin
Family Member (voice) (1 episodes)
Judd Hirsch
(voice) (1 episodes)
Al Lewis
Self (1 episodes)
Timothy Hutton
(voice) (1 episodes)
Sarah Churchwell
Self (1 episodes)
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Kyle MacLachlan
Narrator (1 episodes)
Ron Vawter
Charles Guiteau (1 episodes)
Kevin Murray
Mr Jocelyn (1 episodes)
Mary Pickford
Self (1 episodes)
Douglas Fairbanks
Self (1 episodes)
Jeanine Basinger
Self (1 episodes)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (1 episodes)
D.W. Griffith
Self (1 episodes)
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
Self (1 episodes)
Jack Pickford
Self (1 episodes)
Lottie Pickford
Self (1 episodes)
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Benjamin Ferencz
Self (1 episodes)
Clarence Darrow
Self (1 episodes)
Theodore Roosevelt
Self (1 episodes)
Jackson Walker
Daniel Ross (1 episodes)
Josh Blaylock
Young John Ross (1 episodes)
William J. Finley
Elias Boudinot (1 episodes)
Wesley French
John Ridge (1 episodes)
Robert Hatch
Missionary (1 episodes)
Ryan Lewis
Wealthy Plantation Owner (1 episodes)
Emily Podleski
Sarah Northrup (1 episodes)
Robert Lansing
Narrator (1 episodes)
Louis Gossett Jr.
Self - Narrator (1 episodes)
Denzel Washington
Self - Narrator (1 episodes)
Matthew Broderick
Jack Binns (voice) (1 episodes)
Paul Guilfoyle
James Connolly (voice) (1 episodes)
Bill Paxton
Self - Reader (voice) (1 episodes)
John Mahoney
(voice) (1 episodes)
Mary Bacon
Sally Thorpe (1 episodes)
Samuel Barnett
Philip's Schoolmate (1 episodes)
Gerry Bamman
Peter Fenner (1 episodes)
John Ellison Conlee
Shopkeeper Evans (1 episodes)
John Curless
David Hosack (1 episodes)
Michael Cumpsty
James Callender (1 episodes)
Richard Easton
George Washington (1 episodes)
Peter Gerety
Robert Bartlett (1 episodes)
Daniel Gerroll
Thomas Jefferson (1 episodes)
Neal Huff
Ephraim Slattery (1 episodes)
Brian Murray
Gouverneur Morris (1 episodes)
Mark Nelson
Nathaniel Pendleton (1 episodes)
Denis O'Hare
Henry Lee (1 episodes)
Kelli O'Hara
Maria Reynolds (1 episodes)
Jamie Parker
Philip Hamilton (1 episodes)
Bridget Regan
Angelica Shippen (1 episodes)
Henry Strozier
John Adams (1 episodes)
Michael Stuhlbarg
Officer Stephen Colden (1 episodes)
Leonardo Cuesta
Plantation Slave St. Croix (1 episodes)
Kevin R. Hershberger
Continental Soldier (1 episodes)
Brían F. O'Byrne
Alexander Hamilton (1 episodes)
Matthew Arkin
Alexander Bickel (voice) (1 episodes)
Dan Rather
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Rachel Maddow
Self (1 episodes)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Alan Campbell
Josephus Daniels / Other Voices (1 episodes)
Keith David
W.E. Henderson / Other Voices (1 episodes)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self (1 episodes)
Norman Lloyd
Self (1 episodes)
Orson Welles
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Gary Cooper
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episodes)
Myrna Loy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episodes)
Dick Powell
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episodes)
Helen Gahagan
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
John Connally
Self (1 episodes)
Lynda Johnson Robb
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
James Farmer
Self (1 episodes)
Daniel Ellsberg
Self (1 episodes)
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Self (1 episodes)
Barry Goldwater
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Hubert H. Humphrey
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Nicholas Katzenbach
Self (1 episodes)
Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Robert McNamara
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Hồ Chí Minh
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Jack Valenti
Self (1 episodes)
Maya Angelou
Self - Author (1 episodes)
Ossie Davis
Self - Harlem Resident (1 episodes)
Alex Haley
Self - Biographer (1 episodes)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
King George V of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
H.L. Mencken
Self (1 episodes)
William Belleau
Wampanoag man (1 episodes)
Tonantzin Carmelo
Awashunk (1 episodes)
Mark S. Cartier
John Easton (1 episodes)
William Joseph Elk III
Wampanoag man (1 episodes)
Nicholas Irons
Edward Winslow (1 episodes)
Zahn McClarnon
Wampanoag man (1 episodes)
Tatanka Means
Nookau (1 episodes)
Lewis D. Wheeler
Stephen Hopkins (1 episodes)
Jerry Wolf
Wampanoag Man (1 episodes)
Michael Greyeyes
Tecumseh (1 episodes)
Dwier Brown
(1 episodes)
Alex Meraz
Warrior (1 episodes)
Billy Merasty
Warrior (1 episodes)
Thosh Collins
Warrior (1 episodes)
Robert Bakker
Self (1 episodes)
Josh Hamilton
(1 episodes)
Carolyn McCormick
(1 episodes)
Ed Koch
Self (1 episodes)
Truman Capote
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Liberace
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
John V. Lindsay
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Michael Dobbs
Self (1 episodes)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Rick Perlstein
Self (1 episodes)
Jann Wenner
Self (1 episodes)
Phyllis Schlafly
Self (1 episodes)
Roy Edward Disney
Self (1 episodes)
Richard M. Sherman
Self (1 episodes)
Floyd Norman
Self (1 episodes)
Ron Miller
Self (1 episodes)
Scott Carpenter
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Gordon Cooper
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Gus Grissom
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
John Hope Franklin
(1 episodes)
Felipe Rose
Self (1 episodes)
Jimmy Carter
Self (archive footage) (1 episodes)
Will Lyman
Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episodes)
Henry Kissinger
Self (1 episodes)
Frank Snepp
Self (1 episodes)
Crew
Michael Shaw
Art Direction (2 episodes)
Tom Bergmann
Director of Photography (1 episodes)
Tim Kaine
Thanks (1 episodes)
Stephen Ives
Director (5 episodes)
Robert Stone
Director (4 episodes)
Chris Eyre
Director (3 episodes)
Sam Pollard
Director (3 episodes)
Barak Goodman
Director (2 episodes)
Ric Burns
Director (1 episodes)
Connie Field
Director (1 episodes)
Christine Lesiak
Director (1 episodes)
Muffie Meyer
Director (1 episodes)
Yoruba Richen
Director (1 episodes)
Sharon Grimberg
Director (1 episodes)
Sébastien Lifshitz
Director (1 episodes)
Rory Kennedy
Director (1 episodes)
Michael Kloft
Director (1 episodes)
Sharon Grimberg
Producer (47 episodes)
Mark Samels
Executive Producer (47 episodes)
Ric Burns
Producer (45 episodes)
Jamila Wignot
Producer (45 episodes)
Deborah Blum
Production Consultant (2 episodes)
Yoruba Richen
Producer (1 episodes)
Stanley Nelson
Producer (1 episodes)
Barak Goodman
Producer (1 episodes)
Rory Kennedy
Producer (1 episodes)
Tom Jennings
Writer (3 episodes)
Deborah Blum
Book (2 episodes)
Stephen Ives
Writer (2 episodes)
Sharon Grimberg
Writer (2 episodes)
Barak Goodman
Writer (1 episodes)
Pierre Berton
Book (1 episodes)
Ric Burns
Writer (1 episodes)
Yoruba Richen
Writer (1 episodes)
Rushmore DeNooyer
Writer (1 episodes)
Stanley Nelson
Writer (1 episodes)
Christine Lesiak
Writer (1 episodes)