American Experience(1988-)
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Overview
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
Seasons: 37 • Episodes: 396
Currently: 37x2
Last Episode
25 Mar 2025 12:00 - a month ago
37x2 - Change, Not Charity
Cast
David Ogden Stiers
Narrator (voice)
31 episodes
David McCullough
Narrator (voice)
Host
21 episodes
Michael Murphy
Narrator (voice)
13 episodes
Linda Hunt
Narrator (voice)
12 episodes
Oliver Platt
Narrator (voice)
12 episodes
Liev Schreiber
Narrator (voice)
8 episodes
Joe Morton
Narrator (voice)
8 episodes
Julian Bond
Narrator (voice)
8 episodes
Jason Robards
Narrator (voice)
7 episodes
Blair Brown
Narrator (voice)
Ellen Wilson (voice)
7 episodes
Frances Sternhagen
(voice)
Self (voice)
6 episodes
Holly Hunter
Mary Lincoln (voice)
Mary Todd (voice)
6 episodes
David Morse
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Abraham Lincoln
6 episodes
Campbell Scott
Narrator (voice)
5 episodes
Andre Braugher
Narrator
Narrator (voice)
Robert Carter (voice)
5 episodes
George Plimpton
(voice)
Self (voice)
5 episodes
Stacy Keach
Narrator (voice)
4 episodes
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
4 episodes
Dion Graham
Self - Narrator (voice)
3 episodes
René Auberjonois
Woodrow Wilson (voice)
Alexander Hamilton (voice)
3 episodes
Susan Sarandon
Narrator (voice)
3 episodes
David Margulies
(voice)
Self (voice)
3 episodes
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Self
3 episodes
Benjamin Bratt
Narrator (voice)
Narrator
3 episodes
Corey Stoll
Narrator (voice)
Narrator
3 episodes
Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)
2 episodes
Alfre Woodard
Narrator (voice)
2 episodes
Randy Quaid
Narrator (voice)
2 episodes
Héctor Elizondo
Narrator (voice)
2 episodes
Morgan Freeman
Narrator (voice)
2 episodes
Scott Glenn
Narrator (voice)
2 episodes
Laura Linney
Narrator (voice)
2 episodes
Robert Redford
Self - Narrator (voice)
2 episodes
James Avery
Charles Hamilton Houston (voice)
Narrator (voice)
2 episodes
Eric Sevareid
Self - Narrator (voice)
Self
2 episodes
Martin Luther King Jr.
Himself (archive footage)
2 episodes
Kate Burton
Narrator
2 episodes
Peter Krause
Narrator
2 episodes
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
2 episodes
Donald Regan
Self
2 episodes
Dina Titus
Self
2 episodes
Lois Smith
(voice)
2 episodes
Morley Safer
Self (archive footage)
Narrator (voice)
2 episodes
Kathy Bates
Narrator
Narrator (voice)
2 episodes
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage)
Self
2 episodes
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Self (voice) (archive footage)
2 episodes
Amelia Earhart
Self
Self (archive footage)
2 episodes
Wes Studi
Warrior in Canoe
Major Ridge
2 episodes
Lady Bird Johnson
Self
2 episodes
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
2 episodes
Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
2 episodes
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
2 episodes
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)
2 episodes
Gore Vidal
Self (archive footage)
Self
2 episodes
Walt Disney
Self (archive footage)
2 episodes
Don Hahn
Self
2 episodes
Tom Sito
Self
2 episodes
Steven Watts
Self
2 episodes
Ron Suskind
Self
2 episodes
F. Murray Abraham
Self - Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Mary McDonnell
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Donald Sutherland
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Brian Dennehy
Aaron Burr (voice)
1 episode
Mandy Patinkin
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Judith Light
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Tom Hanks
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Carl Lumbly
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Marion Ross
Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)
1 episode
Cherry Jones
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Keith Carradine
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Courtney B. Vance
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Robert Duvall
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Glenn Close
Self - Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Charles Kuralt
Self - Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Hume Cronyn
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Ruby Dee
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Philip Bosco
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Joe Mantegna
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Hal Linden
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Ellen Burstyn
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Hal Holbrook
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Garrison Keillor
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Roy Scheider
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Anna Deavere Smith
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Harris Yulin
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Simon Russell Beale
John Adams (voice)
1 episode
Christopher Plummer
Narrator
1 episode
Kenneth Branagh
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Jeffrey Wright
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Colm Feore
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Ping Wu
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Chris Cooper
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Nicholas Purcell
Charles Adams
1 episode
Roger Rees
William Bradford
1 episode
Richard Thomas
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Sada Thompson
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Len Cariou
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Stephen Ives
Himself - Director
1 episode
Jesse Owens
Self
1 episode
Jeremy Schaap
Self
1 episode
Harry Edwards
Self
1 episode
Guy Walters
Self
1 episode
Rainer Rother
Self
1 episode
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Narrator
1 episode
André Holland
Narrator
1 episode
Joanna Rhinehart
Narrator
1 episode
Lea Salonga
Narrator
1 episode
Vanessa Williams
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
Bahni Turpin
Zora Neale Hurston (voice)
1 episode
Jim Jones
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Leo J. Ryan
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Chris Dodd
Self
1 episode
Lee Wilkof
Dr. Walter Freeman (voice)
1 episode
Joanna Merlin
Family Member (voice)
1 episode
Judd Hirsch
(voice)
1 episode
Al Lewis
Self
1 episode
Timothy Hutton
(voice)
1 episode
Sarah Churchwell
Self
1 episode
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Kyle MacLachlan
Narrator
1 episode
Ron Vawter
Charles Guiteau
1 episode
Kevin Murray
Mr Jocelyn
1 episode
Mary Pickford
Self
1 episode
Douglas Fairbanks
Self
1 episode
Charlie Chaplin
Self
1 episode
D.W. Griffith
Self
1 episode
Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Self
1 episode
Jack Pickford
Self
1 episode
Lottie Pickford
Self
1 episode
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Benjamin Ferencz
Self
1 episode
Clarence Darrow
Self
1 episode
Gutzon Borglum
Self
1 episode
Theodore Roosevelt
Self
1 episode
Jackson Walker
Daniel Ross
1 episode
Josh Blaylock
Young John Ross
1 episode
William J. Finley
Elias Boudinot
1 episode
Wesley French
John Ridge
1 episode
Robert Hatch
Missionary
1 episode
Ryan Lewis
Wealthy Plantation Owner
1 episode
Emily Podleski
Sarah Northrup
1 episode
Robert Lansing
Narrator
1 episode
Louis Gossett Jr.
Self - Narrator
1 episode
Denzel Washington
Self - Narrator
1 episode
Matthew Broderick
Jack Binns (voice)
1 episode
Paul Guilfoyle
James Connolly (voice)
1 episode
Bill Paxton
Self - Reader (voice)
1 episode
John Mahoney
(voice)
1 episode
Mary Bacon
Sally Thorpe
1 episode
Samuel Barnett
Philip's Schoolmate
1 episode
Gerry Bamman
Peter Fenner
1 episode
John Ellison Conlee
Shopkeeper Evans
1 episode
John Curless
David Hosack
1 episode
Michael Cumpsty
James Callender
1 episode
Richard Easton
George Washington
1 episode
Peter Gerety
Robert Bartlett
1 episode
Daniel Gerroll
Thomas Jefferson
1 episode
Neal Huff
Ephraim Slattery
1 episode
Brian Murray
Gouverneur Morris
1 episode
Mark Nelson
Nathaniel Pendleton
1 episode
Denis O'Hare
Henry Lee
1 episode
Kelli O'Hara
Maria Reynolds
1 episode
Jamie Parker
Philip Hamilton
1 episode
Bridget Regan
Angelica Shippen
1 episode
Henry Strozier
John Adams
1 episode
Michael Stuhlbarg
Officer Stephen Colden
1 episode
Leonardo Cuesta
Plantation Slave St. Croix
1 episode
Kevin R. Hershberger
Continental Soldier
1 episode
Brían F. O'Byrne
Alexander Hamilton
1 episode
Matthew Arkin
Alexander Bickel (voice)
1 episode
Dan Rather
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Rachel Maddow
Self
1 episode
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Alan Campbell
Josephus Daniels / Other Voices
1 episode
Keith David
W.E. Henderson / Other Voices
1 episode
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self
1 episode
Norman Lloyd
Self
1 episode
Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Gary Cooper
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1 episode
Myrna Loy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1 episode
Dick Powell
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1 episode
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Helen Gahagan
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
John Connally
Self
1 episode
Lynda Johnson Robb
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
James Farmer
Self
1 episode
Daniel Ellsberg
Self
1 episode
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Self
1 episode
Barry Goldwater
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Hubert H. Humphrey
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Nicholas Katzenbach
Self
1 episode
Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Robert McNamara
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Hồ Chí Minh
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Jack Valenti
Self
1 episode
Maya Angelou
Self - Author
1 episode
Ossie Davis
Self - Harlem Resident
1 episode
Alex Haley
Self - Biographer
1 episode
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
King George V of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
H.L. Mencken
Self
1 episode
William Belleau
Wampanoag man
1 episode
Tonantzin Carmelo
Awashunk
1 episode
Mark S. Cartier
John Easton
1 episode
William Joseph Elk III
Wampanoag man
1 episode
Nicholas Irons
Edward Winslow
1 episode
Zahn McClarnon
Wampanoag man
1 episode
Tatanka Means
Nookau
1 episode
Lewis D. Wheeler
Stephen Hopkins
1 episode
Michael Greyeyes
Tecumseh
1 episode
Dwier Brown
1 episode
Alex Meraz
Warrior
1 episode
Billy Merasty
Warrior
1 episode
Thosh Collins
Warrior
1 episode
Robert Bakker
Self
1 episode
Josh Hamilton
1 episode
Carolyn McCormick
1 episode
Ed Koch
Self
1 episode
Truman Capote
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Liberace
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
John V. Lindsay
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Michael Dobbs
Self
1 episode
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Rick Perlstein
Self
1 episode
Jann Wenner
Self
1 episode
Phyllis Schlafly
Self
1 episode
Roy Edward Disney
Self
1 episode
Richard M. Sherman
Self
1 episode
Floyd Norman
Self
1 episode
Ron Miller
Self
1 episode
Scott Carpenter
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Gordon Cooper
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
John Hope Franklin
1 episode
Felipe Rose
Self
1 episode
Jimmy Carter
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
Info
Status
Returning Series
Original Language
English
Networks
PBS
