| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Austin Hoyt | Crew | Production | Producer | 45 |
 Barak Goodman | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer | 1 |
Chana Gazit | Crew | Production | Producer, Writer, Director | 1 |
 Connie Field | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
David Belton | Crew | Production | Producer | 45 |
David Grubin | Crew | Production | Producer | 45 |
Gary Lionelli | Crew | Sound | Original Music Composer | 1 |
George O'Donnell | Crew | Editing | Editor | 2 |
John Maggio | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
Jon Neuburger | Crew | Editing | Editor | 2 |
Judy Crichton | Crew | Production | Producer | 45 |
Marcia Smith | Crew | Writing | Writer | 45 |
Margaret Drain | Crew | Production | Executive Producer | 45 |
Marilyn Mulford | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
 Mark Samels | Crew | Production | Executive Producer | 47 |
Mark Zwonitzer | Crew | Production | Producer, Writer, Director | 45 |
Michael Epstein | Crew | Production | Producer | 45 |
Michael Shaw | Crew | Art | Art Direction | 2 |
Michelle Ferrari | Crew | Writing | Writer, Director | 50 |
Nick Fraser | Crew | Production | Executive Producer | 45 |
 Pierre Berton | Crew | Writing | Book | 1 |
 Ric Burns | Crew | Production | Producer | 45 |
Rob Rapley | Crew | Production | Producer, Director, Writer | 46 |
Robert Kenner | Crew | Production | Producer, Director | 45 |
 Robert Stone | Crew | Directing | Director | 4 |
Robin Espinola | Crew | Production | Producer | 45 |
 Sam Pollard | Crew | Directing | Director | 3 |
 Sharon Grimberg | Crew | Production | Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Producer | 46 |
 Stanley Nelson | Crew | Production | Producer, Writer | 1 |
Susan Bellows | Crew | Production | Producer, Executive Producer | 46 |
 Sébastien Lifshitz | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
Thomas Lennon | Crew | Production | Producer | 54 |
Don Kleszy | Crew | Editing | Editor | 1 |
Jamila Wignot | Crew | Production | Producer | 45 |
Laurens Grant | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer | 1 |
Mary Recine | Crew | Production | Producer | 45 |
Peter Rundquist | Crew | Sound | Original Music Composer | 2 |
Susan Kim | Crew | Writing | Writer | 1 |
Tom Phillips | Crew | Sound | Music | 1 |
Anna Lee Strachan | Crew | Directing | Director, Writer | 1 |
Bonnie Lafave | Crew | Production | Producer | 45 |
Keven McAlester | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
Lindsey Megrue | Crew | Production | Associate Producer | 1 |
Rocky Collins | Crew | Directing | Director, Writer | 1 |
Kiley Kraskouskas | Crew | Production | Producer | 1 |
Amanda Pollak | Crew | Production | Producer, Director | 5 |
Tom Bergmann | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography | 1 |
 Stephen Ives | Crew | Directing | Director, Writer | 4 |
Tracy Heather Strain | Crew | Directing | Director, Writer | 2 |
Lisa Ades | Crew | Production | Producer | 45 |
Stacey L. Holman | Crew | Production | Associate Producer | 1 |
Bernd Wilting | Crew | Production | Executive Producer | 1 |
Margaret Grossi | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
Li-Shin Yu | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer | 1 |
Jamila Ephron | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer, Writer | 1 |
Emily L. Harrold | Crew | Production | Producer | 1 |
Mark Dugas | Crew | Editing | Editor | 1 |
Jason Longo | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography | 1 |
Melissa Martin Pollard | Crew | Production | Co-Producer | 1 |
 Tim Kaine | Crew | Crew | Thanks | 1 |
Nikki Bramley | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography | 1 |
Jen Hickey | Crew | Production | Co-Producer | 1 |
Heather Merrill | Crew | Production | Associate Producer | 1 |
Helen Ryan Dobrowski | Crew | Production | Producer | 1 |
 Chris Eyre | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
John Baynard | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography | 1 |
Sarah Colt | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
Randall MacLowry | Crew | Writing | Writer, Director | 1 |
Hilary Klotz Steinman | Crew | Production | Producer | 1 |
Cameo George | Crew | Production | Executive Producer | 29 |
Lisa Vidal | Crew | Camera | Assistant Camera | 1 |
Gene Tempest | Crew | Production | Producer, Writer | 2 |
Dennis Wells | Crew | Production | Associate Producer | 1 |
Susan Mottau | Crew | Production | Coordinating Producer | 1 |
Aaron R. Cohen | Crew | Writing | Writer | 1 |
Leola Calzolai-Stewart | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
Rachell Shapiro | Crew | Production | Producer | 1 |
James Q. Chan | Crew | Production | Producer | 1 |
 Al Lewis | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Alfre Woodard | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 2 |
 Andre Braugher | Cast | Actor | Narrator | 3 |
 Anna Deavere Smith | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Bahni Turpin | Cast | Actress | Zora Neale Hurston (voice) | 1 |
 Benjamin Bratt | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Blair Brown | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 6 |
 Brian Dennehy | Cast | Actor | Aaron Burr (voice) | 1 |
 Campbell Scott | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 5 |
 Carl Lumbly | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Charles Rogers | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Charlie Chaplin | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Cherry Jones | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Chris Cooper | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Chris Dodd | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Christine Jorgensen | Cast | Actress | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
 Christopher Plummer | Cast | Actor | Narrator | 1 |
 Clarence Darrow | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Colm Feore | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Corey Stoll | Cast | Actor | Narrator | 1 |
 Courtney B. Vance | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
Curtis LeMay | Cast | Self | 1 | |
 D.W. Griffith | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 David Margulies | Cast | Actor | Self (voice) | 1 |
 David McCullough | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 David Ogden Stiers | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 31 |
 Denzel Washington | Cast | Actor | Self - Narrator | 1 |
 Dion Graham | Cast | Narrator (voice) | 3 | |
 Donald Sutherland | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Douglas Fairbanks | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Ellen Burstyn | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Eric Sevareid | Cast | Himself | 1 | |
 F. Murray Abraham | Cast | Actor | Narrator | 1 |
 Frances Sternhagen | Cast | Actress | Self (voice) | 1 |
 Franklin D. Roosevelt | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
Frederick Stuart | Cast | Actor | John Ross | 1 |
 Garrison Keillor | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 George Plimpton | Cast | Actor | Self (voice) | 1 |
 Glenn Close | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Gutzon Borglum | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Hal Holbrook | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Hal Linden | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Harris Yulin | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Harry Edwards | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Hector Elizondo | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 2 |
 Hermann Göring | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Hume Cronyn | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 J. Edgar Hoover | Cast | Actor | Self (voice) (archive footage) | 1 |
 Jack Pickford | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Jackson Walker | Cast | Actor | Daniel Ross | 1 |
 James Avery | Cast | Actor | Charles Hamilton Houston (voice) | 1 |
 Jason Robards | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 7 |
Jeanine Basinger | Cast | Actress | Self | 1 |
 Jeffrey Wright | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Jesse Owens | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Jim Jones | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
 Joanna Rhinehart | Cast | Actress | Narrator | 1 |
 Joanna Merlin | Cast | Actress | Family Member (voice) | 1 |
 Joe Mantegna | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Joe Morton | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 8 |
 Judd Hirsch | Cast | Actor | (voice) | 1 |
 Judith Light | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Julian Bond | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 8 |
 Kate Burton | Cast | Actress | Narrator | 2 |
 Kathy Bates | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Keith Carradine | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Kenneth Branagh | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Kyle MacLachlan | Cast | Actor | Narrator | 1 |
 Laura Linney | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 2 |
 Lea Salonga | Cast | Actress | Narrator | 1 |
 Lee Wilkof | Cast | Actor | Dr. Walter Freeman (voice) | 1 |
 Len Cariou | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Liev Schreiber | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 8 |
 Linda Hunt | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 12 |
 Lois Smith | Cast | Actress | (voice) | 2 |
 Lottie Pickford | Cast | Actress | Self | 1 |
 Louis Gossett Jr. | Cast | Actor | Self - Narrator | 1 |
 Mandy Patinkin | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Marion Ross | Cast | Actress | Edith Bolling-Galt (voice) | 1 |
 Martin Luther King Jr. | Cast | Actor | Himself (archive footage) | 1 |
Marty McDonough | Cast | District Attorney Cockhill | 1 | |
 Mary McDonnell | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Mary Pickford | Cast | Actress | Self | 1 |
 Michael Murphy | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 10 |
 Morgan Freeman | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 2 |
 Morley Safer | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Oliver Platt | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 4 |
 Peter Coyote | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 2 |
 Peter Krause | Cast | Actor | Narrator | 2 |
 Philip Bosco | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Ping Wu | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Randy Quaid | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 2 |
 René Auberjonois | Cast | Actor | Woodrow Wilson (voice) | 2 |
 Renée Elise Goldsberry | Cast | Actress | Narrator | 1 |
Richard Ben Cramer | Cast | Narrator (voice) | 3 | |
 Richard Thomas | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Robert Duvall | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Robert Lansing | Cast | Actor | Narrator | 1 |
 Robert Redford | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 2 |
 Roger Rees | Cast | Actor | William Bradford | 1 |
 Ron Vawter | Cast | Actor | Charles Guiteau | 1 |
 Ronald Reagan | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 2 |
 Roy Scheider | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Ruby Dee | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Sada Thompson | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Scott Glenn | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 2 |
 Simon Russell Beale | Cast | Actor | John Adams (voice) | 1 |
 Stacy Keach | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 4 |
 Susan Sarandon | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 3 |
 Theodore Roosevelt | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Timothy Hutton | Cast | Actor | (voice) | 1 |
 Tom Hanks | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Vladimir Lenin | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
 Vanessa Williams | Cast | Actress | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
 Walter Cronkite | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Wes Studi | Cast | Actor | Major Ridge | 1 |
Brian Paulette | Cast | Actor | Frank James | 1 |
 Jeremy Schaap | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Josh Blaylock | Cast | Actor | Young John Ross | 1 |
Louis Zamperini | Cast | Self | 1 | |
 Nicholas Purcell | Cast | Actor | Charles Adams | 1 |
 Wesley French | Cast | Actor | John Ridge | 1 |
William Stanley Merwin | Cast | Narrator (voice) | 1 | |
 André Holland | Cast | Actor | Narrator | 1 |
 Benjamin Ferencz | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Rainer Rother | Cast | Self | 1 | |
 Ryan Lewis | Cast | Actor | Wealthy Plantation Owner | 1 |
Bart Whiteman | Cast | James Garfield | 1 | |
Sam Grey | Cast | Felix Frankfurter (voice) | 1 | |
 Amelia Earhart | Cast | Actress | Self | 1 |
Stephen Ives | Cast | Actor | Himself - Director | 1 |
 Emily Podleski | Cast | Actress | Sarah Northrup | 1 |
Irv Drasnin | Cast | Narrator (voice) | 1 | |
Marc Seifer | Cast | Self | 1 | |
 Sarah Churchwell | Cast | Actress | Self | 1 |
 Robert Hatch | Cast | Missionary | 1 | |
 Kevin Murray | Cast | Actor | Mr Jocelyn | 1 |
 Guy Walters | Cast | Self | 1 | |
 William J. Finley | Cast | Actor | Elias Boudinot | 1 |
Bugsy Siegel | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
Theodor Michael | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Beverly Gage | Cast | Actress | Self | 1 |
Marilyn Spanier | Cast | Annie Oakley (voice) | 1 | |
Charles Kuralt | Cast | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
Fritz Kuhn | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
Leah Wright Rigeur | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Professor Margaret MacMillan | Cast | Self | 1 | |
William J. Baker | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Iris Cummings Critchell | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Hilmar Dressler | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Rafael Medoff | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Marlene Owens Rankin | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Beverly Owens Prather | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Susan Ware | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Louis Stokes | Cast | Self | 1 | |
William Rhoden | Cast | Self | 1 | |
David Clay Large | Cast | Self | 1 | |
David Wallechinsky | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Volker Kluge | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Steven Ross | Cast | Self | 1 | |
 Leo J. Ryan | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
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