TV Show Cast (256)

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  David Ogden Stiers

  Narrator (voice) (31 Episodes)

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  David McCullough

  Narrator (voice) (12 Episodes), Self (1 Episode)

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  Linda Hunt

  Narrator (voice) (12 Episodes)

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  Michael Murphy

  Narrator (voice) (10 Episodes), Narrator (1 Episode)

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  Liev Schreiber

  Narrator (voice) (8 Episodes)

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  Joe Morton

  Narrator (voice) (8 Episodes)

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  Julian Bond

  Narrator (voice) (8 Episodes)

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  Jason Robards

  Narrator (voice) (7 Episodes)

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  Blair Brown

  Narrator (voice) (6 Episodes), Ellen Wilson (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Oliver Platt

  Narrator (voice) (4 Episodes), Narrator (2 Episodes)

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  Frances Sternhagen

  (voice) (5 Episodes), Self (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Campbell Scott

  Narrator (voice) (5 Episodes)

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  Andre Braugher

  Narrator (3 Episodes), Robert Carter (voice) (1 Episode), Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  George Plimpton

  (voice) (4 Episodes), Self (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Stacy Keach

  Narrator (voice) (4 Episodes)

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  Russell Baker

  Narrator (voice) (4 Episodes)

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  Dion Graham

  Narrator (voice) (3 Episodes)

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  René Auberjonois

  Woodrow Wilson (voice) (2 Episodes), Alexander Hamilton (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Susan Sarandon

  Narrator (voice) (3 Episodes)

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  Richard Ben Cramer

  Narrator (voice) (3 Episodes)

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  David Margulies

  (voice) (2 Episodes), Self (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Peter Coyote

  Narrator (voice) (2 Episodes)

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  Alfre Woodard

  Narrator (voice) (2 Episodes)

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  Randy Quaid

  Narrator (voice) (2 Episodes)

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  Hector Elizondo

  Narrator (voice) (2 Episodes)

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  Morgan Freeman

  Narrator (voice) (2 Episodes)

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  Scott Glenn

  Narrator (voice) (2 Episodes)

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  Laura Linney

  Narrator (voice) (2 Episodes)

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  Robert Redford

  Narrator (voice) (2 Episodes)

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  James Avery

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode), Charles Hamilton Houston (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Eric Sevareid

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode), Himself (1 Episode)

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  Kate Burton

  Narrator (2 Episodes)

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  Peter Krause

  Narrator (2 Episodes)

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  Ronald Reagan

  Self (archive footage) (2 Episodes)

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  Donald Regan

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Dina Titus

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Lois Smith

  (voice) (2 Episodes)

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  Walter Cronkite

  Self (1 Episode), Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  F. Murray Abraham

  Narrator (1 Episode)

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  Mary McDonnell

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Donald Sutherland

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Brian Dennehy

  Aaron Burr (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Mandy Patinkin

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Judith Light

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Tom Hanks

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Carl Lumbly

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Marion Ross

  Edith Bolling-Galt (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Cherry Jones

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Keith Carradine

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Courtney B. Vance

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Robert Duvall

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Glenn Close

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Charles Kuralt

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Irv Drasnin

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Hume Cronyn

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Ruby Dee

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Philip Bosco

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Sam Grey

  Felix Frankfurter (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Joe Mantegna

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Hal Linden

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Ellen Burstyn

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  William Stanley Merwin

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Hal Holbrook

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Garrison Keillor

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Roy Scheider

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Anna Deavere Smith

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Morley Safer

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Harris Yulin

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Simon Russell Beale

  John Adams (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Lisa Emond

  Abigail Adams (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Mitchell McCann

  Jesse James (1 Episode)

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  Brian Paulette

  Frank James (1 Episode)

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  Christopher Plummer

  Narrator (1 Episode)

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  Marilyn Spanier

  Annie Oakley (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Kenneth Branagh

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Jeffrey Wright

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Colm Feore

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Kathy Bates

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Ping Wu

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Chris Cooper

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Martin Luther King Jr.

  Himself (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Nicholas Purcell

  Charles Adams (1 Episode)

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  Bugsy Siegel

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Roger Rees

  William Bradford (1 Episode)

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  Richard Thomas

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Sada Thompson

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Len Cariou

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Stephen Ives

  Himself - Director (1 Episode)

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  Jesse Owens

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Hilmar Dressler

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jeremy Schaap

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Professor Margaret MacMillan

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Theodor Michael

  Self (1 Episode)

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  William Rhoden

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Harry Edwards

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Volker Kluge

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Guy Walters

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Rainer Rother

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Iris Cummings Critchell

  Self (1 Episode)

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  David Wallechinsky

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Louis Zamperini

  Self (1 Episode)

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  William J. Baker

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Susan Ware

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Rafael Medoff

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Marlene Owens Rankin

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Beverly Owens Prather

  Self (1 Episode)

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  David Clay Large

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Louis Stokes

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Renée Elise Goldsberry

  Narrator (1 Episode)

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  André Holland

  Narrator (1 Episode)

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  Joanna Rhinehart

  Narrator (1 Episode)

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  Lea Salonga

  Narrator (1 Episode)

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  Vanessa Williams

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Bahni Turpin

  Zora Neale Hurston (voice) (1 Episode)

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  J. Hunter

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jim Jones

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Leo J. Ryan

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Christine Jorgensen

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Chris Dodd

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Lee Wilkof

  Dr. Walter Freeman (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Joanna Merlin

  Family Member (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Judd Hirsch

  (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Al Lewis

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Timothy Hutton

  (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Beverly Gage

  Self (1 Episode)

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  William Hitchcock

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Sarah Churchwell

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Bradley Hart

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Steven Ross

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Charles Coughlin

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Leah Wright Rigeur

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Fritz Kuhn

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Vladimir Lenin

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Dorothy Thompson

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  J. Edgar Hoover

  Self (voice) (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Kyle MacLachlan

  Narrator (1 Episode)

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  Ron Vawter

  Charles Guiteau (1 Episode)

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  Bart Whiteman

  James Garfield (1 Episode)

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  Robert Fields

  George Scoville (1 Episode)

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  Adolph Mall

  Judge Cox (1 Episode)

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  Marty McDonough

  District Attorney Cockhill (1 Episode)

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  Kevin Murray

  Mr Jocelyn (1 Episode)

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  Robert Bakker

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Steven Conn

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Kenneth Anger

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Bradley Douglas Cook

  Alfred Kinsey (1 Episode)

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  Mary Pickford

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Douglas Fairbanks

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jeanine Basinger

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Charlie Chaplin

  Self (1 Episode)

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  D.W. Griffith

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Amelia Earhart

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Charles "Buddy" Rogers

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jack Pickford

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Lottie Pickford

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Hermann Göring

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Robert Jackson

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Benjamin Ferencz

  Self (1 Episode)

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  William Jennings Bryan

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Clarence Darrow

  Self (1 Episode)

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  John Thomas Scopes

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Gutzon Borglum

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Theodore Roosevelt

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Corey Stoll

  Narrator (1 Episode)

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  Jackson Walker

  Daniel Ross (1 Episode)

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  Josh Blaylock

  Young John Ross (1 Episode)

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  Benjamin Bratt

  Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Carla-Rae

  Suzanna Ridge (1 Episode)

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  Kelly Finley

  Sara (1 Episode)

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  William J. Finley

  Elias Boudinot (1 Episode)

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  Wesley French

  John Ridge (1 Episode)

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  Robert Hatch

  Missionary (1 Episode)

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  Ryan Lewis

  Wealthy Plantation Owner (1 Episode)

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  Emily Podleski

  Sarah Northrup (1 Episode)

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  Brad D. Smith

  Senator (1 Episode)

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  Frederick Stuart

  John Ross (1 Episode)

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  Wes Studi

  Major Ridge (1 Episode)

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  Steve Warren

  Missionary (1 Episode)

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  Hans Bethe

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Peter Haydu

  Russian voices (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Curtis LeMay

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Curtis LeMay

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Edward Teller

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Richard Rhodes

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Robert Lansing

  Narrator (1 Episode)

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  Marc Seifer

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jane Alcorn

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Harold Clark

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Peter Fisher

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Samantha Hunt

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jill Jonnes

  Self (1 Episode)

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  John M. Staudenmaier

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Louis Gossett Jr.

  Self - Narrator (1 Episode)

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  Denzel Washington

  Self - Narrator (1 Episode)

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  Matthew Broderick

  Jack Binns (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Stephanie Castellarin

  Hallie Davis (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Paul Guilfoyle

  James Connolly (voice) (1 Episode)

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  John Maxtone-Graham

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Susan Douglas

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Phil Petersen

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Charles A. Haas

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Bill Paxton

  Self - Reader (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Blaine Hamann

  Self - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (1 Episode)

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  Ila Clements

  Self - Worker's Daughter (1 Episode)

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  Tommy Nelson

  Self - Worker (1 Episode)

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  John Mahoney

  (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Mary Bacon

  Sally Thorpe (1 Episode)

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  Samuel Barnett

  Philip's Schoolmate (1 Episode)

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  Gerry Bamman

  Peter Fenner (1 Episode)

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  Lauren Bloom

  Young Eliza Schuyler (1 Episode)

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  John Ellison Conlee

  Shopkeeper Evans (1 Episode)

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  John Curless

  David Hosack (1 Episode)

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  Michael Cumpsty

  James Callender (1 Episode)

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  Richard Easton

  George Washington (1 Episode)

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  Peter Gerety

  Robert Bartlett (1 Episode)

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  Daniel Gerroll

  Thomas Jefferson (1 Episode)

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  Neal Huff

  Ephraim Slattery (1 Episode)

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  Neil McGarry

  Aaron Burr (1 Episode)

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  Julia Morrison

  Mary Paget (1 Episode)

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  Brian Murray

  Gouverneur Morris (1 Episode)

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  Mark Nelson

  Nathaniel Pendleton (1 Episode)

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  Denis O'Hare

  Henry Lee (1 Episode)

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  Kelli O'Hara

  Maria Reynolds (1 Episode)

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  Jamie Parker

  Philip Hamilton (1 Episode)

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  Brandon Reilly

  Young Hamilton in St. Croix (1 Episode)

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  Bridget Regan

  Angelica Shippen (1 Episode)

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  Henry Strozier

  John Adams (1 Episode)

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  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Officer Stephen Colden (1 Episode)

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  Angela Thornton

  Old Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1 Episode)

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  Leonardo Cuesta

  Plantation Slave St. Croix (1 Episode)

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  Joanne Freeman

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Kevin R. Hershberger

  Continental Soldier (1 Episode)

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  Brían F. O'Byrne

  Alexander Hamilton (1 Episode)

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  John Pagano

  Continental Officer (1 Episode)

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  Matthew Arkin

  Alexander Bickel (voice) (1 Episode)

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  Robin Miles

  Self - Narrator (voice) (1 Episode)

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  James Hite

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jared Cohen

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Dan Rather

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Kate Andersen Brower

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Ramesh Ponnuru

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Joel K. Goldstein

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Rachel Maddow

  Self (1 Episode)

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  John D. Feerick

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Hilary Brown

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Carole Jerome

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Stephen Kinzer

  Self (1 Episode)

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  James Q. Roberts

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Barbara Rosen

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Barry Rosen

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Gary Sick

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Alan Campbell

  Josephus Daniels / Other Voices (1 Episode)

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  Keith David

  W.E. Henderson / Other Voices (1 Episode)

TV Show Crew (124)