American Experience poster

TV series · 1988

American Experience

First aired 4 October 1988 Documentary TMDB ↗

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

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Myrna Loy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
83
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
as Self
78
Ronald Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
77
Richard Nixon
as Self (archive footage)
75
Richard Nixon
as Self
75
Walter Cronkite
as Self
71
Walter Cronkite
as Self (archive footage)
71
Orson Welles
as Self (archive footage)
Died aged 70, before release
Ossie Davis
as Self - Harlem Resident
70
Jason Robards
as Narrator (voice)
66
John V. Lindsay
as Self (archive footage)
66
Ruby Dee
as Narrator (voice)
65
Lyndon B. Johnson
as Self (archive footage)
Died aged 64, before release
Jimmy Carter
as Self (archive footage)
64
Ed Koch
as Self
63
George Plimpton
as (voice)
61
George Plimpton
as Self (voice)
61
Sada Thompson
as Narrator (voice)
61
Robert Lansing
as Narrator
60
Maya Angelou
as Self - Author
60
Marion Ross
as Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)
59
Dick Powell
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Died aged 58, before release
Frances Sternhagen
as (voice)
58
Frances Sternhagen
as Self (voice)
58
Christopher Plummer
as Narrator
58
Joanna Merlin
as Family Member (voice)
57
Adolf Hitler
as Self (archive footage)
Died aged 56, before release
Dan Rather
as Self (archive footage)
56
David McCullough
as Narrator (voice)
55
David McCullough
as Self - Host
55
Donald Sutherland
as Narrator (voice)
53
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Narrator (voice)
52
Héctor Elizondo
as Narrator (voice)
51
Brian Murray
as Gouverneur Morris
51
Morgan Freeman
as Narrator (voice)
51
Michael Murphy
as Narrator (voice)
50
Julian Bond
as Narrator (voice)
48
Stacy Keach
as Narrator (voice)
47
Gerry Bamman
as Peter Fenner
47
Garrison Keillor
as Narrator (voice)
46
David Ogden Stiers
as Narrator (voice)
45
Roger Rees
as William Bradford
44
Linda Hunt
as Self - Narrator (voice)
43
Blair Brown
as Narrator (voice)
42
Joe Morton
as Narrator (voice)
40
Judith Light
as Narrator (voice)
39
Malcolm X
as Self (archive footage)
Died aged 39, before release
Ron Vawter
as Charles Guiteau
39
Keith Carradine
as Narrator (voice)
39
Anna Deavere Smith
as Narrator (voice)
38
Richard Thomas
as Narrator (voice)
37
Daniel Gerroll
as Thomas Jefferson
36
David Morse
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
34
David Morse
as Abraham Lincoln
34
Keith David
as W.E. Henderson / Other Voices
32
Tom Hanks
as Narrator (voice)
32
Kate Burton
as Narrator
31
Dwier Brown
29
Carolyn McCormick
29
Timothy Hutton
as (voice)
28
Oliver Platt
as Narrator (voice)
28
Courtney B. Vance
as Narrator (voice)
28
Campbell Scott
as Narrator (voice)
27
Kenneth Branagh
as Narrator (voice)
27
Simon Russell Beale
as John Adams (voice)
27
Andre Braugher
as Narrator (voice)
26
Denis O'Hare
as Henry Lee
26
Vanessa Williams
as Narrator (voice)
25
Peter Krause
as Narrator
23
Zahn McClarnon
as Wampanoag man
21
Brían F. O'Byrne
as Alexander Hamilton
21
Liev Schreiber
as Narrator (voice)
21
Michael Stuhlbarg
as Officer Stephen Colden
20
Josh Hamilton
19
Renée Elise Goldsberry
as Narrator
17
Corey Stoll
as Narrator
12
Corey Stoll
as Narrator (voice)
12
Tonantzin Carmelo
as Awashunk
11
Jamie Parker
as Philip Hamilton
9
Samuel Barnett
as Philip's Schoolmate
8
Alex Meraz
as Warrior
3
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