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• David Ogden Stiers as: Narrator (voice)
• David McCullough as: Narrator (voice), Self
• Linda Hunt as: Narrator (voice)
• Michael Murphy as: Narrator (voice)
• Liev Schreiber as: Narrator (voice)
• Joe Morton as: Narrator (voice)
• Julian Bond as: Narrator (voice)
• Jason Robards as: Narrator (voice)
• Blair Brown as: Narrator (voice), Ellen Wilson (voice)
• Oliver Platt as: Narrator (voice), Narrator
• Frances Sternhagen as: (voice), Self (voice)
• Campbell Scott as: Narrator (voice)
• George Plimpton as: (voice), Self (voice)
• Stacy Keach as: Narrator (voice)
• Russell Baker as: Narrator (voice)
• Andre Braugher as: Narrator, Narrator (voice)
• Dion Graham as: Narrator (voice)
• René Auberjonois as: Woodrow Wilson (voice), Alexander Hamilton (voice)
• Susan Sarandon as: Narrator (voice)
• Richard Ben Cramer as: Narrator (voice)
• David Margulies as: (voice), Self (voice)
• Peter Coyote as: Narrator (voice)
• Alfre Woodard as: Narrator (voice)
• Randy Quaid as: Narrator (voice)
• Hector Elizondo as: Narrator (voice)
• Morgan Freeman as: Narrator (voice)
• Scott Glenn as: Narrator (voice)
• Laura Linney as: Narrator (voice)
• Robert Redford as: Narrator (voice)
• James Avery as: Charles Hamilton Houston (voice), Narrator (voice)
• Eric Sevareid as: Narrator (voice), Himself
• Kate Burton as: Narrator
• Peter Krause as: Narrator
• Ronald Reagan as: Self (archive footage)
• Donald Regan as: Self
• Dina Titus as: Self
• Lois Smith as: (voice)
• F. Murray Abraham as: Narrator
• Mary McDonnell as: Narrator (voice)
• Donald Sutherland as: Narrator (voice)
• Brian Dennehy as: Aaron Burr (voice)
• Mandy Patinkin as: Narrator (voice)
• Judith Light as: Narrator (voice)
• Tom Hanks as: Narrator (voice)
• Carl Lumbly as: Narrator (voice)
• Marion Ross as: Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)
• Cherry Jones as: Narrator (voice)
• Keith Carradine as: Narrator (voice)
• Courtney B. Vance as: Narrator (voice)
• Robert Duvall as: Narrator (voice)
• Glenn Close as: Narrator (voice)
• Charles Kuralt as: Narrator (voice)
• Irv Drasnin as: Narrator (voice)
• Hume Cronyn as: Narrator (voice)
• Ruby Dee as: Narrator (voice)
• Philip Bosco as: Narrator (voice)
• Sam Grey as: Felix Frankfurter (voice)
• Joe Mantegna as: Narrator (voice)
• Hal Linden as: Narrator (voice)
• Ellen Burstyn as: Narrator (voice)
• William Stanley Merwin as: Narrator (voice)
• Hal Holbrook as: Narrator (voice)
• Garrison Keillor as: Narrator (voice)
• Roy Scheider as: Narrator (voice)
• Anna Deavere Smith as: Narrator (voice)
• Morley Safer as: Narrator (voice)
• Harris Yulin as: Narrator (voice)
• Simon Russell Beale as: John Adams (voice)
• Lisa Emond as: Abigail Adams (voice)
• Mitchell McCann as: Jesse James
• Brian Paulette as: Frank James
• Christopher Plummer as: Narrator
• Marilyn Spanier as: Annie Oakley (voice)
• Kenneth Branagh as: Narrator (voice)
• Jeffrey Wright as: Narrator (voice)
• Colm Feore as: Narrator (voice)
• Kathy Bates as: Narrator (voice)
• Ping Wu as: Narrator (voice)
• Chris Cooper as: Narrator (voice)
• Martin Luther King Jr. as: Himself (archive footage)
• Nicholas Purcell as: Charles Adams
• Bugsy Siegel as: Self (archive footage)
• Roger Rees as: William Bradford
• Richard Thomas as: Narrator (voice)
• Sada Thompson as: Narrator (voice)
• Len Cariou as: Narrator (voice)
• Stephen Ives as: Himself - Director
• Jesse Owens as: Self
• Hilmar Dressler as: Self
• Jeremy Schaap as: Self
• Professor Margaret MacMillan as: Self
• Theodor Michael as: Self
• William Rhoden as: Self
• Harry Edwards as: Self
• Volker Kluge as: Self
• Guy Walters as: Self
• Rainer Rother as: Self
• Iris Cummings Critchell as: Self
• David Wallechinsky as: Self
• Louis Zamperini as: Self
• William J. Baker as: Self
• Susan Ware as: Self
• Rafael Medoff as: Self
• Marlene Owens Rankin as: Self
• Beverly Owens Prather as: Self
• David Clay Large as: Self
• Louis Stokes as: Self
• Renée Elise Goldsberry as: Narrator
• André Holland as: Narrator
• Joanna Rhinehart as: Narrator
• Lea Salonga as: Narrator
• Vanessa Williams as: Narrator (voice)
• Bahni Turpin as: Zora Neale Hurston (voice)
• J. Hunter as: Self
• Jim Jones as: Self (archive footage)
• Leo J. Ryan as: Self (archive footage)
• Christine Jorgensen as: Self (archive footage)
• Chris Dodd as: Self
• Lee Wilkof as: Dr. Walter Freeman (voice)
• Joanna Merlin as: Family Member (voice)
• Judd Hirsch as: (voice)
• Al Lewis as: Self
• Timothy Hutton as: (voice)
• Beverly Gage as: Self
• William Hitchcock as: Self
• Sarah Churchwell as: Self
• Bradley Hart as: Self
• Steven Ross as: Self
• Charles Coughlin as: Self
• Leah Wright Rigeur as: Self
• Fritz Kuhn as: Self (archive footage)
• Vladimir Lenin as: Self (archive footage)
• Dorothy Thompson as: Self (archive footage)
• J. Edgar Hoover as: Self (voice) (archive footage)
• Kyle MacLachlan as: Narrator
• Ron Vawter as: Charles Guiteau
• Bart Whiteman as: James Garfield
• Robert Fields as: George Scoville
• Adolph Mall as: Judge Cox
• Marty McDonough as: District Attorney Cockhill
• Kevin Murray as: Mr Jocelyn
• Robert Bakker as: Self
• Michael Murphy as: Narrator
• Steven Conn as: Self
• Kenneth Anger as: Self
• Bradley Douglas Cook as: Alfred Kinsey
• Mary Pickford as: Self
• Douglas Fairbanks as: Self
• Jeanine Basinger as: Self
• Charlie Chaplin as: Self
• D.W. Griffith as: Self
• Amelia Earhart as: Self
• Charles "Buddy" Rogers as: Self
• Jack Pickford as: Self
• Lottie Pickford as: Self
• Walter Cronkite as: Self
• Hermann Göring as: Self
• Robert Jackson as: Self
• Benjamin Ferencz as: Self
• William Jennings Bryan as: Self
• Clarence Darrow as: Self
• John Thomas Scopes as: Self
• Franklin D. Roosevelt as: Self
• Gutzon Borglum as: Self
• Theodore Roosevelt as: Self
• Corey Stoll as: Narrator
• Jackson Walker as: Daniel Ross
• Josh Blaylock as: Young John Ross
• Benjamin Bratt as: Narrator (voice)
• Carla-Rae as: Suzanna Ridge
• Kelly Finley as: Sara
• William J. Finley as: Elias Boudinot
• Wesley French as: John Ridge
• Robert Hatch as: Missionary
• Ryan Lewis as: Wealthy Plantation Owner
• Emily Podleski as: Sarah Northrup
• Brad D. Smith as: Senator
• Frederick Stuart as: John Ross
• Wes Studi as: Major Ridge
• Steve Warren as: Missionary
• Hans Bethe as: Self
• Peter Haydu as: Russian voices (voice)
• Curtis LeMay as: Self (archive footage)
• Curtis LeMay as: Self
• Edward Teller as: Self
• Richard Rhodes as: Self
• Robert Lansing as: Narrator
• Marc Seifer as: Self
• Jane Alcorn as: Self
• Harold Clark as: Self
• Peter Fisher as: Self
• Samantha Hunt as: Self
• Jill Jonnes as: Self
• John M. Staudenmaier as: Self
• Louis Gossett Jr. as: Self - Narrator
• Denzel Washington as: Self - Narrator
• Matthew Broderick as: Jack Binns (voice)
• Stephanie Castellarin as: Hallie Davis (voice)
• Paul Guilfoyle as: James Connolly (voice)
• John Maxtone-Graham as: Self
• Susan Douglas as: Self
• Phil Petersen as: Self
• Charles A. Haas as: Self
• Bill Paxton as: Self - Reader (voice)