American Experience (1988)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Cameo George
Executive Producer
Will Lyman
Narrator
Henry Hampton
Writer
Michael Shaw
Art Direction
Jason Longo
Director of Photography
John Baynard
Director of Photography
Lisa Vidal
Assistant Camera
Tom Bergmann
Director of Photography
Nikki Bramley
Director of Photography
Tim Kaine
Thanks
Rob Rapley
Director / Producer / Writer
Robert Stone
Director
Sam Pollard
Director
Tracy Heather Strain
Director / Writer
Laurens Grant
Director / Producer
Anna Lee Strachan
Director / Writer
Sarah Colt
Director
SĂ©bastien Lifshitz
Director
Randall MacLowry
Director / Writer
Michelle Ferrari
Director
Chana Gazit
Director / Producer / Writer
Rocky Collins
Director / Writer
Marilyn Mulford
Director
Robert Kenner
Director / Producer
Li-Shin Yu
Director / Producer
Mark Zwonitzer
Director / Producer / Writer
Michelle Ferrari
Director / Writer
Chris Eyre
Director
Barak Goodman
Director / Producer
Michael Bicks
Director / Writer
Margaret Grossi
Director
Connie Field
Director
Amanda Pollak
Director / Producer
Peter Yost
Director / Producer / Writer
Leola Calzolai-Stewart
Director
Jamila Ephron
Director / Producer / Writer
Keven McAlester
Director
Sharon Grimberg
Director / Executive Producer / Producer / Writer
John Maggio
Director
Jon Neuburger
Editor
George O'Donnell
Editor
Mark Dugas
Editor
Don Kleszy
Editor
Thomas Lennon
Producer
Susan Bellows
Producer / Executive Producer
Mark Samels
Executive Producer
Ric Burns
Producer
Bonnie Lafave
Producer
Lisa Ades
Producer
David Belton
Producer
Robin Espinola
Producer
Margaret Drain
Executive Producer
Patrick Long
Producer
Judy Crichton
Producer
Austin Hoyt
Producer
Mary Recine
Producer
Michael Epstein
Producer
Nick Fraser
Executive Producer
David Grubin
Producer
Jamila Wignot
Producer
Gene Tempest
Producer / Writer
Bernd Wilting
Executive Producer
Dennis Wells
Associate Producer
Stephanie Mills
Associate Producer
Jen Hickey
Co-Producer
Lindsey Megrue
Associate Producer
Stacey L. Holman
Associate Producer
Susan Mottau
Coordinating Producer
Melissa Martin Pollard
Co-Producer
Heather Merrill
Associate Producer
James Q. Chan
Producer
Helen Ryan Dobrowski
Producer
Stanley Nelson
Producer / Writer
Edna Alburquerque
Producer
Emily L. Harrold
Producer
Kiley Kraskouskas
Producer
Rachell Shapiro
Producer
Hilary Klotz Steinman
Producer
Peter Rundquist
Original Music Composer
Tom Phillips
Music
Gary Lionelli
Original Music Composer
Marcia Smith
Writer
Aaron R. Cohen
Writer
Ken Chowder
Writer
Susan Kim
Writer
Pierre Berton
Book
F. Murray Abraham
Narrator
Liev Schreiber
Narrator (voice)
Linda Hunt
Narrator (voice)
Jason Robards
Narrator (voice)
Mary McDonnell
Narrator (voice)
Donald Sutherland
Narrator (voice)
Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)
Alfre Woodard
Narrator (voice)
Dion Graham
Narrator (voice)
Brian Dennehy
Aaron Burr (voice)
Joe Morton
Narrator (voice)
Mandy Patinkin
Narrator (voice)
René Auberjonois
Woodrow Wilson (voice) / Alexander Hamilton (voice)
Randy Quaid
Narrator (voice)
Judith Light
Narrator (voice)
Tom Hanks
Narrator (voice)
Carl Lumbly
Narrator (voice)
Marion Ross
Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)
Cherry Jones
Narrator (voice)
Keith Carradine
Narrator (voice)
Blair Brown
Narrator (voice) / Ellen Wilson (voice)
Hector Elizondo
Narrator (voice)
Morgan Freeman
Narrator (voice)
Scott Glenn
Narrator (voice)
Courtney B. Vance
Narrator (voice)
Laura Linney
Narrator (voice)
Robert Duvall
Narrator (voice)
Glenn Close
Narrator (voice)
Charles Kuralt
Narrator (voice)
Irv Drasnin
Narrator (voice)
Hume Cronyn
Narrator (voice)
Ruby Dee
Narrator (voice)
Robert Redford
Narrator (voice)
Stacy Keach
Narrator (voice)
Philip Bosco
Narrator (voice)
Sam Grey
Felix Frankfurter (voice)
Joe Mantegna
Narrator (voice)
David McCullough
Narrator (voice) / Self
Hal Linden
Narrator (voice)
James Avery
Narrator (voice) / Charles Hamilton Houston (voice)
Ellen Burstyn
Narrator (voice)
Susan Sarandon
Narrator (voice)
Russell Baker
Narrator (voice)
William Stanley Merwin
Narrator (voice)
Eric Sevareid
Narrator (voice) / Himself
Hal Holbrook
Narrator (voice)
Richard Ben Cramer
Narrator (voice)
Garrison Keillor
Narrator (voice)
Roy Scheider
Narrator (voice)
Anna Deavere Smith
Narrator (voice)
Morley Safer
Narrator (voice)
Harris Yulin
Narrator (voice)
Simon Russell Beale
John Adams (voice)
Lisa Emond
Abigail Adams (voice)
Mitchell McCann
Jesse James
Brian Paulette
Frank James
Campbell Scott
Narrator (voice)
Christopher Plummer
Narrator
Marilyn Spanier
Annie Oakley (voice)
Kenneth Branagh
Narrator (voice)
Jeffrey Wright
Narrator (voice)
Colm Feore
Narrator (voice)
Kathy Bates
Narrator (voice)
Ping Wu
Narrator (voice)
Chris Cooper
Narrator (voice)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Himself (archive footage)
Nicholas Purcell
Charles Adams
David Ogden Stiers
Narrator (voice)
Bugsy Siegel
Self (archive footage)
Roger Rees
William Bradford
Andre Braugher
Narrator / Narrator (voice)
Richard Thomas
Narrator (voice)
Michael Murphy
Narrator (voice)
Sada Thompson
Narrator (voice)
Len Cariou
Narrator (voice)
Stephen Ives
Himself - Director / Director / Writer
Jesse Owens
Self
Hilmar Dressler
Self
Jeremy Schaap
Self
Professor Margaret MacMillan
Self
Theodor Michael
Self
William Rhoden
Self
Harry Edwards
Self
Volker Kluge
Self
Guy Walters
Self
Rainer Rother
Self
Oliver Platt
Narrator (voice) / Narrator
Iris Cummings Critchell
Self
David Wallechinsky
Self
Louis Zamperini
Self
William J. Baker
Self
Susan Ware
Self
Rafael Medoff
Self
Marlene Owens Rankin
Self
Beverly Owens Prather
Self
David Clay Large
Self
Louis Stokes
Self
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Narrator
André Holland
Narrator
Joanna Rhinehart
Narrator
Kate Burton
Narrator
Peter Krause
Narrator
Lea Salonga
Narrator
Vanessa Williams
Narrator (voice)
Bahni Turpin
Zora Neale Hurston (voice)
J. Hunter
Self
Jim Jones
Self (archive footage)
Leo J. Ryan
Self (archive footage)
Julian Bond
Narrator (voice)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Donald Regan
Self
Christine Jorgensen
Self (archive footage)
Dina Titus
Self
Chris Dodd
Self
Lee Wilkof
Dr. Walter Freeman (voice)
Joanna Merlin
Family Member (voice)
Judd Hirsch
(voice)
Al Lewis
Self
George Plimpton
(voice) / Self (voice)
Lois Smith
(voice)
Timothy Hutton
(voice)
Frances Sternhagen
(voice) / Self (voice)
David Margulies
(voice) / Self (voice)
Beverly Gage
Self
William Hitchcock
Self
Sarah Churchwell
Self
Bradley Hart
Self
Steven Ross
Self
Charles Coughlin
Self
Leah Wright Rigeur
Self
Fritz Kuhn
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Dorothy Thompson
Self (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Kyle MacLachlan
Narrator
Ron Vawter
Charles Guiteau
Bart Whiteman
James Garfield
Robert Fields
George Scoville
Adolph Mall
Judge Cox
Marty McDonough
District Attorney Cockhill
Kevin Murray
Mr Jocelyn
Robert Bakker
Self
Michael Murphy
Narrator
Steven Conn
Self
Kenneth Anger
Self
Bradley Douglas Cook
Alfred Kinsey
Mary Pickford
Self
Douglas Fairbanks
Self
Jeanine Basinger
Self
Charlie Chaplin
Self
D.W. Griffith
Self
Amelia Earhart
Self
Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Self
Jack Pickford
Self
Lottie Pickford
Self
Walter Cronkite
Self
Hermann Göring
Self
Robert Jackson
Self
Benjamin Ferencz
Self
William Jennings Bryan
Self
Clarence Darrow
Self
John Thomas Scopes
Self
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self
Gutzon Borglum
Self
Theodore Roosevelt
Self
Corey Stoll
Narrator
Jackson Walker
Daniel Ross
Josh Blaylock
Young John Ross
Benjamin Bratt
Narrator (voice)
Carla-Rae
Suzanna Ridge
Kelly Finley
Sara
William J. Finley
Elias Boudinot
Wesley French
John Ridge
Robert Hatch
Missionary
Ryan Lewis
Wealthy Plantation Owner
Emily Podleski
Sarah Northrup
Brad D. Smith
Senator
Frederick Stuart
John Ross
Wes Studi
Major Ridge
Steve Warren
Missionary
Hans Bethe
Self
Peter Haydu
Russian voices (voice)
Curtis LeMay
Self (archive footage)
Curtis LeMay
Self
Edward Teller
Self
Richard Rhodes
Self
Robert Lansing
Narrator
Marc Seifer
Self
Jane Alcorn
Self
Harold Clark
Self
Peter Fisher
Self
Samantha Hunt
Self
Jill Jonnes
Self
John M. Staudenmaier
Self
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 4, 1988
StatusReturning Series
Seasons36
Episodes392
Running Time55m
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
Wiki.
American Experience is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history.
The series premiered on October 4, 1988 and was originally titled The American Experience, but the definite article was later dropped during a rebrand and image update. The show has had a presence on the internet since 1995, and more than 100 American Experience programs are accompanied by their own internet websites, which have more background information on the subjects covered as well as teachers' guides and educational companion materials. The show is produced primarily by WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, though occasionally in the early seasons of the show, it was co-produced by other PBS stations such as WNET (Channel 13) in New York City.
Some programs now considered part of the American Experience collection were produced prior to the creation of the series. Vietnam: A Television History was one of them, airing originally in 1983 after taking six years to assemble. Also, in 2006, American Experience rebroadcast Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, the first half of the 1986 documentary series about the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and 1960s.