| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Anthony Savini | Crew | Lighting | Gaffer | 3 |
 Buddy Squires | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography | 3 |
David Obermeyer | Crew | Sound | Sound Recordist | 3 |
Dominick Tavella | Crew | Sound | Sound Re-Recording Mixer | 3 |
Erik Ewers | Crew | Editing | Editor | 3 |
Geoffrey C. Ward | Crew | Writing | Writer | 3 |
 Ken Burns | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Creator | 3 |
 Lynn Novick | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer, Creator | 3 |
Ryan Gifford | Crew | Editing | Editor | 3 |
Sarah Botstein | Crew | Production | Producer | 3 |
Tricia Reidy | Crew | Editing | Editor | 3 |
 Wynton Marsalis | Crew | Sound | Original Music Composer, Music Arranger | 3 |
Christopher Darling | Crew | Directing | Assistant Director | 3 |
Maria Torfeld | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Makeup Artist | 3 |
Jean Lane | Crew | Production | Producer | 3 |
Karen Kenton | Crew | Production | Producer | 3 |
David Cieri | Crew | Sound | Original Music Composer | 3 |
Scott Harber | Crew | Sound | Sound Recordist | 3 |
Doug Wamble | Crew | Sound | Original Music Composer | 3 |
John Zecca | Crew | Sound | Sound Recordist | 3 |
Mark Roy | Crew | Sound | Sound Recordist | 3 |
Mike Welt | Crew | Production | Co-Producer | 3 |
Robert Silverthorne | Crew | Sound | Sound Recordist | 3 |
McKay McFadden | Crew | Production | Associate Producer | 3 |
 Adam Arkin | Cast | Actor | Reader (voice) | 3 |
 Amy Madigan | Cast | Actress | Reader (voice) | 3 |
 Blythe Danner | Cast | Actress | Reader (voice) | 3 |
 Campbell Scott | Cast | Actor | Reader / F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice) | 3 |
 Carolyn McCormick | Cast | Actress | Reader (voice) | 3 |
 Daniel Okrent | Cast | Actor | Self - Author | 3 |
 Frances Sternhagen | Cast | Actress | Reader (voice) | 3 |
 Franklin D. Roosevelt | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
 Jeremy Irons | Cast | Actor | Reader (voice) | 3 |
 John Lithgow | Cast | Actor | Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice) | 3 |
 Josh Lucas | Cast | Actor | Reader (voice) | 3 |
 Kevin Conway | Cast | Actor | Reader (voice) | 3 |
 Oliver Platt | Cast | Actor | Reader / Al Capone (voice) | 3 |
 Patricia Clarkson | Cast | Actress | Reader / Carrie Nation (voice) | 3 |
 Paul Giamatti | Cast | Actor | Reader / George Remus (voice) | 3 |
 Pete Hamill | Cast | Actor | Self - Historian | 3 |
 Peter Coyote | Cast | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 3 |
 Philip Bosco | Cast | Actor | Reader (voice) | 3 |
 Sam Waterston | Cast | Actor | Reader (voice) | 3 |
 Samuel L. Jackson | Cast | Actor | Reader (voice) | 3 |
 Tom Hanks | Cast | Actor | Reader / Roy Olmstead (voice) | 3 |
Joanne Tucker | Cast | Actress | Reader (voice) | 3 |
 Studs Terkel | Cast | Actor | Self - Writer | 1 |
Freddie Johnson | Cast | Self - Historian | 1 | |
Roger Angell | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Dorothea Brown | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Noah Feldman | Cast | Actor | Self - Legal Scholar | 3 |
John Paul Stevens | Cast | Self | 2 | |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) | Episodes |
