American Experience

Edward Teller

Self

Josh Blaylock

Young John Ross

Jackson Walker

Daniel Ross

Theodore Roosevelt

Self

Gutzon Borglum

Self

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self

John Thomas Scopes

Self

Clarence Darrow

Self

William Jennings Bryan

Self

Benjamin Ferencz

Self

Robert Jackson

Self

Hermann Göring

Self (archive footage)

Lottie Pickford

Self

Jack Pickford

Self

Benjamin Bratt

Narrator (voice)

Carla-Rae

Suzanna Ridge

Kelly Finley

Sara

Curtis LeMay

Self

Curtis LeMay

Self (archive footage)

Peter Haydu

Russian voices (voice)

Hans Bethe

Self

Steve Warren

Missionary

Wes Studi

Major Ridge

Frederick Stuart

John 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

Charles "Buddy" Rogers

Self

Amelia Earhart

Self

Kyle MacLachlan

Narrator

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Dorothy Thompson

Self (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

Bradley Hart

Self

Sarah Churchwell

Self

William Hitchcock

Self

Beverly Gage

Self

Ron Vawter

Charles Guiteau

Bart Whiteman

James Garfield

Robert Fields

George Scoville

D.W. Griffith

Self

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

Marty McDonough

District Attorney Cockhill

Adolph Mall

Judge Cox

Timothy Hutton

(voice)

Richard Rhodes

Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Angela Thornton

Old Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

Michael Stuhlbarg

Officer Stephen Colden

Henry Strozier

John Adams

Bridget Regan

Angelica Shippen

Brandon Reilly

Young Hamilton in St. Croix

Jamie Parker

Philip Hamilton

Kelli O'Hara

Maria Reynolds

Denis O'Hare

Henry Lee

Mark Nelson

Nathaniel Pendleton

Brian Murray

Gouverneur Morris

Julia Morrison

Mary Paget

Neil McGarry

Aaron Burr

Neal Huff

Ephraim Slattery

Leonardo Cuesta

Plantation Slave St. Croix

Joanne Freeman

Self

Kevin R. Hershberger

Continental Soldier

John D. Feerick

Self

Rachel Maddow

Self

Joel K. Goldstein

Self

Ramesh Ponnuru

Self

Kate Andersen Brower

Self

Dan Rather

Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Jared Cohen

Self

James Hite

Self

Robin Miles

Self - Narrator (voice)

Matthew Arkin

Alexander Bickel (voice)

John Pagano

Continental Officer

Brían F. O'Byrne

Alexander Hamilton

Daniel Gerroll

Thomas Jefferson

Peter Gerety

Robert Bartlett

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

Jill Jonnes

Self

Samantha Hunt

Self

Peter Fisher

Self

Harold Clark

Self

Jane Alcorn

Self

Marc Seifer

Self

Susan Douglas

Self

Phil Petersen

Self

Charles A. Haas

Self

Richard Easton

George Washington

Michael Cumpsty

James Callender

John Curless

David Hosack

John Ellison Conlee

Shopkeeper Evans

Lauren Bloom

Young Eliza Schuyler

Gerry Bamman

Peter Fenner

Samuel Barnett

Philip's Schoolmate

Mary Bacon

Sally Thorpe

John Mahoney

(voice)

Tommy Nelson

Self - Worker

Ila Clements

Self - Worker's Daughter

Blaine Hamann

Self - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Bill Paxton

Self - Reader (voice)

Robert Lansing

Narrator

Al Lewis

Self

Theodor Michael

Self

Colm Feore

Narrator (voice)

Jeffrey Wright

Narrator (voice)

Morley Safer

Narrator (voice)

Anna Deavere Smith

Narrator (voice)

Ellen Burstyn

Narrator (voice)

Hal Linden

Narrator (voice)

Joe Mantegna

Narrator (voice)

Sam Grey

Felix Frankfurter (voice)

Hume Cronyn

Narrator (voice)

Eric Sevareid

Himself / Narrator (voice)

Robert Duvall

Narrator (voice)

Courtney B. Vance

Narrator (voice)

Scott Glenn

Narrator (voice)

Stephen Ives

Himself - Director

René Auberjonois

Alexander Hamilton (voice) / Woodrow Wilson (voice)

David Margulies

(voice) / Self (voice)

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)

Ruby Dee

Narrator (voice)

Irv Drasnin

Narrator (voice)

Keith Carradine

Narrator (voice)

Carl Lumbly

Narrator (voice)

Mandy Patinkin

Narrator (voice)

Morgan Freeman

Narrator (voice)

Hector Elizondo

Narrator (voice)

Mary McDonnell

Narrator (voice)

Julian Bond

Narrator (voice)

Andre Braugher

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

David Ogden Stiers

Narrator (voice)

James Avery

Charles Hamilton Houston (voice) / Narrator (voice)

Campbell Scott

Narrator (voice)

Frances Sternhagen

(voice) / Self (voice)

Randy Quaid

Narrator (voice)

Richard Thomas

Narrator (voice)

Harris Yulin

Narrator (voice)

Sada Thompson

Narrator (voice)

Robert Redford

Narrator (voice)

Dion Graham

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)

David McCullough

Narrator (voice) / Self

William Rhoden

Self

Judd Hirsch

(voice)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Himself (archive footage)

Ping Wu

Narrator (voice)

Kathy Bates

Narrator (voice)

Kenneth Branagh

Narrator (voice)

Marilyn Spanier

Annie Oakley (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)

Nicholas Purcell

Charles Adams

Bugsy Siegel

Self (archive footage)

Len Cariou

Narrator (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)

J. Hunter

Self

Bahni Turpin

Zora Neale Hurston (voice)

Vanessa Williams

Narrator (voice)

Lea Salonga

Narrator

Joanna Rhinehart

Narrator

André Holland

Narrator

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Narrator

Glenn Close

Narrator (voice)

Cherry Jones

Narrator (voice)

Louis Stokes

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

Guy Walters

Self

Volker Kluge

Self

Laura Linney

Narrator (voice)

Kate Burton

Narrator

Peter Krause

Narrator

Marion Ross

Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)

Tom Hanks

Narrator (voice)

Judith Light

Narrator (voice)

Brian Dennehy

Aaron Burr (voice)

F. Murray Abraham

Narrator

Roger Rees

William Bradford

Will Lyman

Narrator (voice)

Charles Kuralt

Narrator (voice)

Walter Cronkite

Self / Self (archive footage)

Lois Smith

(voice)

Dina Titus

Self

Donald Regan

Self

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Harry Edwards

Self