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| 50 cast members | 
| Name | Episodes | Known for | 
|---|---|---|
| David McCullough
 
Self - Host / Self - Narrator / Self - Introduction / Self - Narrated by
 |  48
 | |
| David Ogden Stiers
 
Self - Narrator (voice)
 |  33
 | |
| Michael Murphy
 
Self - Narrator
 |  31
 | |
| Oliver Platt
 
Self - Narrator (voice)
 |  26
 | |
| Joe Morton
 
Self - Narrator
 |  15
 | |
| Linda Hunt
 
Narrator
 |  13
 | |
| Walter Cronkite
 
Self - / Self - Newscaster / Self - CBS News Anchor / Self - Anchor, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite / Self - CBS Evening News Anchor
 |  13
 | |
| Will Lyman
 
Narrator (voice)
 |  10
 | |
| Ronald Reagan
 
Self - 40th President of the United States (archive footage)
 |  10
 | |
| Liev Schreiber
 
Self - Narrator
 |  10
 | |
| Campbell Scott
 
Self - Narrator
 |  10
 | |
| John F. Kennedy
 
Self - Funeral / Self - President Kennedy / Self - 35th President of the United States
 |  10
 | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
Self (archive footage)
 |  10
 | |
| Lyndon B. Johnson
 
Self - Senate Majority Leader (D-Texas) / Self - Senator / Self - US President / Self - 36th President of the United States (archive footage)
 |  10
 | |
| Martin Luther King
 
Self (with RFK during March On Washington) / Self - Civil Rights Leader (archive footage)
 |  9
 | |
| Philip Bosco
 
Narrator / Gideon Folger / Paul Macy
 |  9
 | |
| Robert A. Caro
 
Self - Writer / Self - Author of 'The Years of Lyndon Johnson'
 |  9
 | |
| Harry S. Truman
 
Self - 33rd President of the United States (archive footage)
 |  8
 | |
| Callie Thorne
 
Self - Voice / Self - Poem Reader / Self - Sara Pierce
 |  8
 | |
| Blair Brown
 
Self - Narrator / Self - Evelyn Nesbit (voice)
 |  8
 | |
| Jimmy Carter
 
Self - 39th President of the United States / Self - U.S. President (archive footage)
 |  8
 | |
| Adolf Hitler
 
Self (archive footage)
 |  8
 | |
| Richard Nixon
 
Self - 37th President of the United States / Self - President / Self - U.S. President (archive footage)
 |  8
 | |
| Eli Wallach
 
Voice-overs / Actor / George McKinstry
 |  8
 | |
| George Plimpton
 
Self
 |  8
 | |
| Brendan Gill
 
Self - Commentator
 |  8
 | |
| John Steele Gordon
 
Self - Author of "A Thread Across the Ocean"
 |  8
 | |
| Robert A.M. Stern
 
Self
 |  8
 | |
| Kenneth Jackson
 
Self
 |  8
 | |
| Mike Wallace
 
Self (historian)
 |  8
 | |
| Julian Bond
 
Self - Narrator / Self / Self (in crowd during March On Washington) / Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee:
 |  7
 | |
| Jason Robards
 
Narrator
 |  7
 | |
| Harris Yulin
 
Narrator / Reporter, New York Times
 |  7
 | |
| Robert Dallek
 
Self - Historian
 |  7
 | |
| Andre Braugher
 
Self - Narrator / Self - Robert Carter
 |  7
 | |
| Robert Sean Leonard
 
Self - Edmund Tyrone / Self - Herman Melville
 |  7
 | |
| Pete Hamill
 
Self
 |  7
 | |
| Robert F. Kennedy
 
Self (with King during March On Washington) (archive footage)
 |  6
 | |
| Keith David
 
Self - W.E. Henderson / Self - Other Voices
 |  6
 | |
| Craig Steven Wilder
 
Self
 |  6
 | |
| Lucy Sante
 
Self (as Luc Sante)
 |  6
 | |
| Calvin O. Butts III
 
Self (as Rev. Calvin O. Butts III)
 |  6
 | |
| David Morse
 
Abraham Lincoln
 |  6
 | |
| Holly Hunter
 
Mary Lincoln / Mary Todd (voice)
 |  6
 | |
| Walter Mondale
 
Self - Vice president / Self - Vice President of the United States
 |  6
 | |
| Frances Sternhagen
 
Self (voice)
 |  6
 | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
Self - 34th President of the United States (archive footage)
 |  5
 | |
| John Chancellor
 
Self - Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
 |  5
 | |
| William Randolph Hearst
 
Self - Film clips (archive footage)
 |  5
 | |
| Stanley Karnow
 
Self / Self - Correspondent
 |  5
 |