Cast & Crew
29 actors and 24 crew members
Cast
Peter CoyoteSelf - Narrator (voice)3 episodes
Daniel OkrentSelf - Author3 episodes
Pete HamillSelf - Historian3 episodes
Noah FeldmanSelf - Legal Scholar3 episodes
Adam ArkinReader (voice)3 episodes
Philip BoscoReader (voice)3 episodes
Patricia ClarksonReader / Carrie Nation (voice)3 episodes
Kevin ConwayReader (voice)3 episodes
Blythe DannerReader (voice)3 episodes
Paul GiamattiReader / George Remus (voice)3 episodes
Tom HanksReader / Roy Olmstead (voice)3 episodes
Jeremy IronsReader (voice)3 episodes
Samuel L. JacksonReader (voice)3 episodes
John LithgowReader / H.L. Mencken (voice)3 episodes
Josh LucasReader (voice)3 episodes
Amy MadiganReader (voice)3 episodes
Carolyn McCormickReader (voice)3 episodes
Oliver PlattReader / Al Capone (voice)3 episodes
Campbell ScottReader / F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice)3 episodes
Frances SternhagenReader (voice)3 episodes
Joanne TuckerReader (voice)3 episodes
Sam WaterstonReader (voice)3 episodes- John Paul StevensSelf2 episodes
- Freddie JohnsonSelf - Historian1 episode
- Dorothea BrownSelf1 episode
Studs TerkelSelf - Writer1 episode- Roger AngellSelf1 episode
Franklin D. RooseveltSelf (archive footage)1 episode
Hymie WeissSelf (archive footage)1 episode
Crew
Created by
Directing
- Assistant Director
- Christopher Darling3 eps.
Writing
- Writer
- Geoffrey C. Ward3 eps.
Production
- Producer
- Ken Burns3 eps.Sarah Botstein3 eps.Karen Kenton3 eps.Lynn Novick3 eps.Jean Lane3 eps.
- Executive Producer
- Ken Burns3 eps.
- Co-Producer
- Mike Welt3 eps.
- Associate Producer
- McKay McFadden3 eps.
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Buddy Squires3 eps.
Editing
- Editor
- Ryan Gifford3 eps.Erik Ewers3 eps.Tricia Reidy3 eps.
Sound
- Original Music Composer
- Wynton Marsalis3 eps.David Cieri3 eps.Doug Wamble3 eps.
- Music Arranger
- Wynton Marsalis3 eps.
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Dominick Tavella3 eps.
- Sound Recordist
- David Obermeyer3 eps.Scott Harber3 eps.Mark Roy3 eps.Robert Silverthorne3 eps.John Zecca3 eps.
Costume & Make-Up
- Makeup Artist
- Maria Torfeld3 eps.
Lighting
- Gaffer
- Anthony Savini3 eps.
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