About American Experience
- Released on October 04, 1988
'American Experience' is a highly acclaimed television series that offers viewers an immersive journey through the captivating stories of America's past. As the most watched history series on TV, it has garnered a reputation for its ability to breathe life into historical events and figures. Each episode is meticulously crafted to provide a comprehensive and engaging account of a particular moment or character from American history.
The series is not just about recounting events, it is about understanding their significance in shaping the world as we know it today. 'American Experience' goes beyond the surface level, delving deep into the nuances and complexities of each story. It offers insights into the motivations, consequences, and legacies of historical events, providing viewers with a more nuanced understanding of American history. The series is renowned for its ability to connect the past with the present, making history relevant and interesting to modern audiences.
What truly sets 'American Experience' apart is its commitment to historical accuracy and storytelling. The series combines expert commentary, compelling narratives, and rare archival footage to create an immersive viewing experience. It brings history to life, making it accessible and engaging for viewers of all ages and backgrounds. Whether you're a history buff or just someone looking to expand your knowledge, 'American Experience' is a must-watch. It's not just a TV series, it's an educational and enriching journey through the annals of American history.
Main Cast of American Experience
David Ogden Stiers plays Narrator (voice) (31 episodes)
Secondary Cast of American Experience
F. Murray Abraham plays Narrator (1 episode)
F. Murray Abraham (born Murray Abraham; October 24, 1939) is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and scre...
See F. Murray Abraham's other roles →Liev Schreiber plays Narrator (voice) (8 episodes)
Isaac Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and narrator. He ...
See Liev Schreiber's other roles →Linda Hunt plays Narrator (voice) (12 episodes)
Jason Robards plays Narrator (voice) (7 episodes)
Mary McDonnell plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Mary Eileen McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received an Acade...
See Mary McDonnell's other roles →Donald Sutherland plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Donald McNichol Sutherland (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor whose film career spans over 6 decades. He has bee...
See Donald Sutherland's other roles →Peter Coyote plays Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Peter Coyote (born Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, author, director, screenw...
See Peter Coyote's other roles →Alfre Woodard plays Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Dion Graham plays Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)
Brian Dennehy plays Aaron Burr (voice) (1 episode)
Brian Mannion Dennehy (July 9, 1938 - April 15, 2020) was an American actor of film, stage and screen.
See Brian Dennehy's other roles →Joe Morton plays Narrator (voice) (8 episodes)
Joe Morton is an American stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for his Emmy awarded role as Eli Pope i...
See Joe Morton's other roles →Mandy Patinkin plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Mandy Patinkin is an American stage, film and television actor and tenor vocalist. Patinkin is a noted interpreter of...
See Mandy Patinkin's other roles →René Auberjonois plays Alexander Hamilton (voice) (1 episode) , Woodrow Wilson (voice) (2 episodes)
An American actor, known for portraying Father Mulcahy in the movie version of M-A-S-H and for creating a number of c...
See René Auberjonois's other roles →Randy Quaid plays Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Judith Light plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Judith Light (born February 9, 1949) is an American actress. Her television roles include One Life to Live, Who's the...
See Judith Light's other roles →Tom Hanks plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic ...
See Tom Hanks's other roles →Carl Lumbly plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Carl Winston Lumbly (born August 14, 1951) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Dick Hallorann in ...
See Carl Lumbly's other roles →Marion Ross plays Edith Bolling-Galt (voice) (1 episode)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marion Ross (born October 25, 1928) is an American actress best known for her ...
See Marion Ross's other roles →Cherry Jones plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress. Having started her career in theatre as a founding memb...
See Cherry Jones's other roles →Keith Carradine plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Keith Ian Carradine (born August 8, 1949) is an American actor and singer-songwriter.
See Keith Carradine's other roles →Blair Brown plays Ellen Wilson (voice) (1 episode) , Narrator (voice) (6 episodes)
Blair Brown is an American stage, film and television actress. She was the leading actress in feature films such as "...
See Blair Brown's other roles →Hector Elizondo plays Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Héctor Elizondo (born December 22, 1936) is an American actor. Elizondo excel...
See Hector Elizondo's other roles →Morgan Freeman plays Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, director, and narrator. Noted for his distinctive deep voice...
See Morgan Freeman's other roles →Scott Glenn plays Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Courtney B. Vance plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. Vance started his career on the Broadway stage in ...
See Courtney B. Vance's other roles →Laura Linney plays Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, includin...
See Laura Linney's other roles →Robert Duvall plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of an Academy Awa...
See Robert Duvall's other roles →Glenn Close plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer of theatre and film, known for her roles as a fem...
See Glenn Close's other roles →Charles Kuralt plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Irv Drasnin plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Hume Cronyn plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Ruby Dee plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Robert Redford plays Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career,...
See Robert Redford's other roles →Stacy Keach plays Narrator (voice) (4 episodes)
Walter Stacy Keach, Jr. (born June 2, 1941) is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic rol...
See Stacy Keach's other roles →Philip Bosco plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Sam Grey plays Felix Frankfurter (voice) (1 episode)
Joe Mantegna plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Anthony “Joe” Mantegna, Jr. (born November 13, 1947) is an American ac...
See Joe Mantegna's other roles →James Avery plays Charles Hamilton Houston (voice) (1 episode) , Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Hal Linden plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Born in 1931, Bronx-born Hal Linden was the son of Charles Lipshitz and Frances Rosen and had an older brother who w...
See Hal Linden's other roles →David McCullough plays Self (1 episode) , Narrator (voice) (12 episodes)
Ellen Burstyn plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress. Known for her portrayal of complicat...
See Ellen Burstyn's other roles →Susan Sarandon plays Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)
Susan Abigail Sarandon (née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actress and activist. She is the recipient ...
See Susan Sarandon's other roles →Russell Baker plays Narrator (voice) (4 episodes)
William Stanley Merwin plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Eric Sevareid plays Himself (1 episode) , Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Hal Holbrook plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American actor, television director, and write...
See Hal Holbrook's other roles →Richard Ben Cramer plays Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)
Garrison Keillor plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Roy Scheider plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Roy Richard Scheider, born on November 10, 1932, was an American actor renowned for his versatile performances. He is...
See Roy Scheider's other roles →Anna Deavere Smith plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is an American actress, playwrig...
See Anna Deavere Smith's other roles →Morley Safer plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Harris Yulin plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Harris Yulin (born November 5, 1937) is an American actor.
See Harris Yulin's other roles →Simon Russell Beale plays John Adams (voice) (1 episode)
Sir Simon Russell Beale CBE (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor. He is known for his appearances in film, tele...
See Simon Russell Beale's other roles →Lisa Emond plays Abigail Adams (voice) (1 episode)
Mitchell McCann plays Jesse James (1 episode)
Brian Paulette plays Frank James (1 episode)
Campbell Scott plays Narrator (voice) (5 episodes)
Campbell Scott (born July 19, 1961) is an American actor, producer, director, and voice artist. His notable TV roles...
See Campbell Scott's other roles →Christopher Plummer plays Narrator (1 episode)
Marilyn Spanier plays Annie Oakley (voice) (1 episode)
Kenneth Branagh plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Ac...
See Kenneth Branagh's other roles →Jeffrey Wright plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor. He is well known for his Tony, Golden Globe and Emmy win...
See Jeffrey Wright's other roles →Colm Feore plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Colm Joseph Feore OC (/ˈkɒləm ˈfjɔːr/; born August 22, 1958) is a Canadian actor. A 15-year veteran of the Stratford ...
See Colm Feore's other roles →Kathy Bates plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director. She has been the recipient of numerous...
See Kathy Bates's other roles →Ping Wu plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Ping Wu was born on May 16, 1956 and is currently 68 years old.
See Ping Wu's other roles →Chris Cooper plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Martin Luther King Jr. plays Himself (archive footage) (1 episode)
Nicholas Purcell plays Charles Adams (1 episode)
Nicholas Purcell was born on June 28, 1990 and is currently 34 years old.
See Nicholas Purcell's other roles →Bugsy Siegel plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Roger Rees plays William Bradford (1 episode)
Roger Rees (5 May 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Welsh actor and director, widely known for his stage work. He won an Oli...
See Roger Rees's other roles →Richard Thomas plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951 height 5' 8½" (1,74 m)) is an America...
See Richard Thomas's other roles →Andre Braugher plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode) , Narrator (3 episodes)
Michael Murphy plays Narrator (voice) (10 episodes)
Sada Thompson plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Len Cariou plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Leonard Joseph “Len” Cariou (born September 30, 1939) is a Canadian actor, be...
See Len Cariou's other roles →Stephen Ives plays Himself - Director (1 episode)
Jesse Owens plays Self (1 episode)
Hilmar Dressler plays Self (1 episode)
Jeremy Schaap plays Self (1 episode)
Professor Margaret MacMillan plays Self (1 episode)
Theodor Michael plays Self (1 episode)
William Rhoden plays Self (1 episode)
Harry Edwards plays Self (1 episode)
Volker Kluge plays Self (1 episode)
Guy Walters plays Self (1 episode)
Rainer Rother plays Self (1 episode)
Oliver Platt plays Narrator (2 episodes) , Narrator (voice) (4 episodes)
Iris Cummings Critchell plays Self (1 episode)
David Wallechinsky plays Self (1 episode)
Louis Zamperini plays Self (1 episode)
William J. Baker plays Self (1 episode)
Susan Ware plays Self (1 episode)
Rafael Medoff plays Self (1 episode)
Marlene Owens Rankin plays Self (1 episode)
Beverly Owens Prather plays Self (1 episode)
David Clay Large plays Self (1 episode)
Louis Stokes plays Self (1 episode)
Renée Elise Goldsberry plays Narrator (1 episode)
Renée Elise Goldsberry (born January 2, 1971) is an American actress, singer and songwriter, known for originating th...
See Renée Elise Goldsberry's other roles →André Holland plays Narrator (1 episode)
Joanna Rhinehart plays Narrator (1 episode)
Kate Burton plays Narrator (2 episodes)
Kate Burton is a Swiss-born Welsh-American stage and screen actress. She holds an BA in Russian Studies and European ...
See Kate Burton's other roles →Peter Krause plays Narrator (2 episodes)
Peter William Krause (born August 12, 1965) is an American actor. He has played lead roles in multiple television ser...
See Peter Krause's other roles →Lea Salonga plays Narrator (1 episode)
Vanessa Williams plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
An American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model, and actress. In 1983, she became the first woman of Af...
See Vanessa Williams's other roles →Bahni Turpin plays Zora Neale Hurston (voice) (1 episode)
Bahni Turpin was born on June 4, 1962 and is currently 62 years old.
See Bahni Turpin's other roles →J. Hunter plays Self (1 episode)
Jim Jones plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Leo J. Ryan plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Julian Bond plays Narrator (voice) (8 episodes)
Ronald Reagan plays Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Donald Regan plays Self (2 episodes)
Christine Jorgensen plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Dina Titus plays Self (2 episodes)
Chris Dodd plays Self (1 episode)
Lee Wilkof plays Dr. Walter Freeman (voice) (1 episode)
Joanna Merlin plays Family Member (voice) (1 episode)
Judd Hirsch plays (voice) (1 episode)
Judd Seymore Hirsch (born March 15, 1935) is an American actor. He is known for playing Alex Rieger on the television...
See Judd Hirsch's other roles →Al Lewis plays Self (1 episode)
George Plimpton plays Self (voice) (1 episode) , (voice) (4 episodes)
George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor...
See George Plimpton's other roles →Lois Smith plays (voice) (2 episodes)
Lois Arlene Smith (née Humbert; born November 3, 1930) is an American actress. She made her film debut in the 1955 dr...
See Lois Smith's other roles →Frances Sternhagen plays Self (voice) (1 episode) , (voice) (5 episodes)
Frances Hussey Sternhagen is an American actress. Sternhagen has appeared on and off Broadway, in movies, and on TV s...
See Frances Sternhagen's other roles →Timothy Hutton plays (voice) (1 episode)
Timothy Tarquin Hutton (born August 16, 1960) is an American actor. He is the youngest actor to win the Academy Award...
See Timothy Hutton's other roles →David Margulies plays Self (voice) (1 episode) , (voice) (2 episodes)
Beverly Gage plays Self (1 episode)
William Hitchcock plays Self (1 episode)
Sarah Churchwell plays Self (1 episode)
Bradley Hart plays Self (1 episode)
Steven Ross plays Self (1 episode)
Charles Coughlin plays Self (1 episode)
Leah Wright Rigeur plays Self (1 episode)
Fritz Kuhn plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Vladimir Lenin plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Dorothy Thompson plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
J. Edgar Hoover plays Self (voice) (archive footage) (1 episode)
Kyle MacLachlan plays Narrator (1 episode)
Kyle Merritt MacLachlan is an American actor. MacLachlan widely known for his portrayal of Dale Cooper in the TV seri...
See Kyle MacLachlan's other roles →Ron Vawter plays Charles Guiteau (1 episode)
Bart Whiteman plays James Garfield (1 episode)
Robert Fields plays George Scoville (1 episode)
Adolph Mall plays Judge Cox (1 episode)
Marty McDonough plays District Attorney Cockhill (1 episode)
Kevin Murray plays Mr Jocelyn (1 episode)
Robert Bakker plays Self (1 episode)
Michael Murphy plays Narrator (1 episode)
Steven Conn plays Self (1 episode)
Kenneth Anger plays Self (1 episode)
Bradley Douglas Cook plays Alfred Kinsey (1 episode)
Mary Pickford plays Self (1 episode)
Douglas Fairbanks plays Self (1 episode)
Jeanine Basinger plays Self (1 episode)
Charlie Chaplin plays Self (1 episode)
D.W. Griffith plays Self (1 episode)
Amelia Earhart plays Self (1 episode)
Charles "Buddy" Rogers plays Self (1 episode)
Jack Pickford plays Self (1 episode)
Lottie Pickford plays Self (1 episode)
Walter Cronkite plays Self (1 episode)
Hermann Göring plays Self (1 episode)
Robert Jackson plays Self (1 episode)
Benjamin Ferencz plays Self (1 episode)
William Jennings Bryan plays Self (1 episode)
Clarence Darrow plays Self (1 episode)
John Thomas Scopes plays Self (1 episode)
Franklin D. Roosevelt plays Self (1 episode)
Gutzon Borglum plays Self (1 episode)
Theodore Roosevelt plays Self (1 episode)
Corey Stoll plays Narrator (1 episode)
Corey Daniel Stoll (born March 14, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Congressman Peter Ru...
See Corey Stoll's other roles →Jackson Walker plays Daniel Ross (1 episode)
Josh Blaylock plays Young John Ross (1 episode)
Benjamin Bratt plays Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Benjamin George Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American actor. He is most known for his role as Rey Curtis on t...
See Benjamin Bratt's other roles →Carla-Rae plays Suzanna Ridge (1 episode)
Kelly Finley plays Sara (1 episode)
William J. Finley plays Elias Boudinot (1 episode)
Wesley French plays John Ridge (1 episode)
Wesley French was born on April 13, 1979 and is currently 45 years old.
See Wesley French's other roles →Robert Hatch plays Missionary (1 episode)
Ryan Lewis plays Wealthy Plantation Owner (1 episode)
Emily Podleski plays Sarah Northrup (1 episode)
Brad D. Smith plays Senator (1 episode)
Frederick Stuart plays John Ross (1 episode)
Wes Studi plays Major Ridge (1 episode)
Wesley "Wes" Studi (born December 17, 1947) is an American Cherokee actor, who has earned notability for his portraya...
See Wes Studi's other roles →Steve Warren plays Missionary (1 episode)
Hans Bethe plays Self (1 episode)
Peter Haydu plays Russian voices (voice) (1 episode)
Curtis LeMay plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Curtis LeMay plays Self (1 episode)
Edward Teller plays Self (1 episode)
Richard Rhodes plays Self (1 episode)
Robert Lansing plays Narrator (1 episode)
Marc Seifer plays Self (1 episode)
Jane Alcorn plays Self (1 episode)
Harold Clark plays Self (1 episode)
Peter Fisher plays Self (1 episode)
Samantha Hunt plays Self (1 episode)
Jill Jonnes plays Self (1 episode)
John M. Staudenmaier plays Self (1 episode)
Louis Gossett Jr. plays Self - Narrator (1 episode)
Louis Gossett Jr. (born May 27, 1936) is an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Gunnery Se...
See Louis Gossett Jr.'s other roles →Denzel Washington plays Self - Narrator (1 episode)
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, director and film producer. He first rose to promine...
See Denzel Washington's other roles →Matthew Broderick plays Jack Binns (voice) (1 episode)
Matthew Broderick is an American actor whose career has spanned both the silver screen and the stage. Broderick got h...
See Matthew Broderick's other roles →Stephanie Castellarin plays Hallie Davis (voice) (1 episode)
Paul Guilfoyle plays James Connolly (voice) (1 episode)
John Maxtone-Graham plays Self (1 episode)
Susan Douglas plays Self (1 episode)
Phil Petersen plays Self (1 episode)
Charles A. Haas plays Self (1 episode)
Bill Paxton plays Self - Reader (voice) (1 episode)
Bill Paxton (May 17, 1955 - February 25, 2017) was an American actor. He appeared in films including Aliens and Titan...
See Bill Paxton's other roles →Blaine Hamann plays Self - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (1 episode)
Ila Clements plays Self - Worker's Daughter (1 episode)
Tommy Nelson plays Self - Worker (1 episode)
John Mahoney plays (voice) (1 episode)
Charles John Mahoney (born June 20, 1940) was an English-born American actor, best known for playing Martin 'Marty' C...
See John Mahoney's other roles →Mary Bacon plays Sally Thorpe (1 episode)
Samuel Barnett plays Philip's Schoolmate (1 episode)
Gerry Bamman plays Peter Fenner (1 episode)
Lauren Bloom plays Young Eliza Schuyler (1 episode)
John Ellison Conlee plays Shopkeeper Evans (1 episode)
John Ellison Conlee is an American stage and screen actor, best known for his recurring roles in the television shows...
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Michael Cumpsty plays James Callender (1 episode)
Richard Easton plays George Washington (1 episode)
Peter Gerety plays Robert Bartlett (1 episode)
Peter Gerety (born May 17, 1940) is an American actor. He is best known as Judge Daniel Phelan in The Wire (2002–2008).
See Peter Gerety's other roles →Daniel Gerroll plays Thomas Jefferson (1 episode)
Daniel Gerroll was born on October 16, 1951 and is currently 72 years old.
See Daniel Gerroll's other roles →Neal Huff plays Ephraim Slattery (1 episode)
Neal Huff is an American stage and screen actor. He received his MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York Un...
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Julia Morrison plays Mary Paget (1 episode)
Brian Murray plays Gouverneur Morris (1 episode)
Mark Nelson plays Nathaniel Pendleton (1 episode)
Denis O'Hare plays Henry Lee (1 episode)
Kelli O'Hara plays Maria Reynolds (1 episode)
Kelli O'Hara is an American actress and singer, who appeared on Broadway and Off-Broadway in many musicals since maki...
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Brandon Reilly plays Young Hamilton in St. Croix (1 episode)
Bridget Regan plays Angelica Shippen (1 episode)
Bridget Regan is an American stage, film and television actress. She holds a BFA in Drama from the School of the Arts...
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Michael Stuhlbarg plays Officer Stephen Colden (1 episode)
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Leonardo Cuesta plays Plantation Slave St. Croix (1 episode)
Joanne Freeman plays Self (1 episode)
Kevin R. Hershberger plays Continental Soldier (1 episode)
Brían F. O'Byrne plays Alexander Hamilton (1 episode)
John Pagano plays Continental Officer (1 episode)
Crew of American Experience
Discover the backstage crew of American Experience →
- F. Murray Abraham
- Liev Schreiber
- Linda Hunt
- Jason Robards
- Mary McDonnell
- Donald Sutherland
- Peter Coyote
- Alfre Woodard
- Dion Graham
- Brian Dennehy
- Joe Morton
- Mandy Patinkin
- René Auberjonois
- Randy Quaid
- Judith Light
- Tom Hanks
- Carl Lumbly
- Marion Ross
- Cherry Jones
- Keith Carradine
- Blair Brown
- Hector Elizondo
- Morgan Freeman
- Scott Glenn
- Courtney B. Vance
- Laura Linney
- Robert Duvall
- Glenn Close
- Charles Kuralt
- Irv Drasnin
- Hume Cronyn
- Ruby Dee
- Robert Redford
- Stacy Keach
- Philip Bosco
- Sam Grey
- Joe Mantegna
- James Avery
- Hal Linden
- David McCullough
- Ellen Burstyn
- Susan Sarandon
- Russell Baker
- William Stanley Merwin
- Eric Sevareid
- Hal Holbrook
- Richard Ben Cramer
- Garrison Keillor
- Roy Scheider
- Anna Deavere Smith
- Morley Safer
- Harris Yulin
- Simon Russell Beale
- Lisa Emond
- Mitchell McCann
- Brian Paulette
- Campbell Scott
- Christopher Plummer
- Marilyn Spanier
- Kenneth Branagh
- Jeffrey Wright
- Colm Feore
- Kathy Bates
- Ping Wu
- Chris Cooper
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Nicholas Purcell
- Bugsy Siegel
- Roger Rees
- Richard Thomas
- Andre Braugher
- Michael Murphy
- Sada Thompson
- Len Cariou
- Stephen Ives
- Jesse Owens
- Hilmar Dressler
- Jeremy Schaap
- Professor Margaret MacMillan
- Theodor Michael
- William Rhoden
- Harry Edwards
- Volker Kluge
- Guy Walters
- Rainer Rother
- Oliver Platt
- Iris Cummings Critchell
- David Wallechinsky
- Louis Zamperini
- William J. Baker
- Susan Ware
- Rafael Medoff
- Marlene Owens Rankin
- Beverly Owens Prather
- David Clay Large
- Louis Stokes
- Renée Elise Goldsberry
- André Holland
- Joanna Rhinehart
- Kate Burton
- Peter Krause
- Lea Salonga
- Vanessa Williams
- Bahni Turpin
- J. Hunter
- Jim Jones
- Leo J. Ryan
- Julian Bond
- Ronald Reagan
- Donald Regan
- Christine Jorgensen
- Dina Titus
- Chris Dodd
- Lee Wilkof
- Joanna Merlin
- Judd Hirsch
- Al Lewis
- George Plimpton
- Lois Smith
- Frances Sternhagen
- Timothy Hutton
- David Margulies
- Beverly Gage
- William Hitchcock
- Sarah Churchwell
- Bradley Hart
- Steven Ross
- Charles Coughlin
- Leah Wright Rigeur
- Fritz Kuhn
- Vladimir Lenin
- Dorothy Thompson
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Kyle MacLachlan
- Ron Vawter
- Bart Whiteman
- Robert Fields
- Adolph Mall
- Marty McDonough
- Kevin Murray
- Robert Bakker
- Steven Conn
- Kenneth Anger
- Bradley Douglas Cook
- Mary Pickford
- Douglas Fairbanks
- Jeanine Basinger
- Charlie Chaplin
- D.W. Griffith
- Amelia Earhart
- Charles "Buddy" Rogers
- Jack Pickford
- Lottie Pickford
- Walter Cronkite
- Hermann Göring
- Robert Jackson
- Benjamin Ferencz
- William Jennings Bryan
- Clarence Darrow
- John Thomas Scopes
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Gutzon Borglum
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Corey Stoll
- Jackson Walker
- Josh Blaylock
- Benjamin Bratt
- Carla-Rae
- Kelly Finley
- William J. Finley
- Wesley French
- Robert Hatch
- Ryan Lewis
- Emily Podleski
- Brad D. Smith
- Frederick Stuart
- Wes Studi
- Steve Warren
- Hans Bethe
- Peter Haydu
- Curtis LeMay
- Edward Teller
- Richard Rhodes
- Robert Lansing
- Marc Seifer
- Jane Alcorn
- Harold Clark
- Peter Fisher
- Samantha Hunt
- Jill Jonnes
- John M. Staudenmaier
- Louis Gossett Jr.
- Denzel Washington
- Matthew Broderick
- Stephanie Castellarin
- Paul Guilfoyle
- John Maxtone-Graham
- Susan Douglas
- Phil Petersen
- Charles A. Haas
- Bill Paxton
- Blaine Hamann
- Ila Clements
- Tommy Nelson
- John Mahoney
- Mary Bacon
- Samuel Barnett
- Gerry Bamman
- Lauren Bloom
- John Ellison Conlee
- John Curless
- Michael Cumpsty
- Richard Easton
- Peter Gerety
- Daniel Gerroll
- Neal Huff
- Neil McGarry
- Julia Morrison
- Brian Murray
- Mark Nelson
- Denis O'Hare
- Kelli O'Hara
- Jamie Parker
- Brandon Reilly
- Bridget Regan
- Henry Strozier
- Michael Stuhlbarg
- Angela Thornton
- Leonardo Cuesta
- Joanne Freeman
- Kevin R. Hershberger
- Brían F. O'Byrne
- John Pagano