Cast

D
David McCullough
as Narrator
S
Sam Waterston
as Abraham Lincoln
J
Julie Harris
as Mary Chestnut
J
Jason Robards
as Ulysses S. Grant
M
Morgan Freeman
as Frederick Douglass
P
Paul Roebling
as Joshua Chamberlain
G
Garrison Keillor
as Walt Whitman
G
George Black
as Robert E. Lee
A
Arthur Miller
as William Tecumseh Sherman
C
Christopher Murney
as Elisha Hunt Rhodes
C
Charles McDowell
as Samuel R. Watkins
H
Horton Foote
as Jefferson Davis
G
George Plimpton
as George Templeton Strong
P
Philip Bosco
as Horace Greeley
T
Terry Courier
as George B. McClellan
J
Jody Powell
as Stonewall Jackson / Various
S
Studs Terkel
as Benjamin Butler / Various
H
Hoyt Axton
as Various
J
John Hartford
as Various
C
Colleen Dewhurst
as Various
S
Shelby Foote
as Various
R
Ronnie Gilbert
as Various
J
Jeremy Irons
as Various
G
Gene Jones
as Various
D
Derek Jacobi
as Various
K
Kurt Vonnegut
as Various
L
Laurence Fishburne
as Various
P
Pamela Reed
as Various
M
M. Emmet Walsh
as Various

Crew

K
Ken Burns
Writer
G
Geoffrey C. Ward
Writer
K
Ken Burns
Director