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Original Release
01/12/2003 on PBS
US Release
01/12/2003
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Katie Couric | Self - Host |
Eric Foner | Commentary |
Tom Hanks | Abraham Lincoln / Reporter / Paul Revere / Jacob Coxey / Daniel Boone / Charles E. Wood |
Stanley Tucci | Tom Crafts / Sitting Bull / Sam Slater / Document Voice / Rutherford B. Hayes / Harper's Weekly / Magistrate / John O'Sullivan / Lieutenant Harry Rennagel / Frederick Bartholdi |
Kevin Kline | Thomas Jefferson / August Spies / Jacob Riis / Paul Potter / Robert Fulton |
Philip Bosco | Charles Nordhoff / Edouard De Laboulave / Frederick Law Olmstead / Newspaper Voice / James Madison / Peter Cooper / Samuel Adams / Samuel Gompers |
Matthew McConaughey | Mark Twain / John Swinton / Charles Fenno Hoffman / Captain W.W. Wood / Andrew Jackson / Alexander Stephens |
Ralph Fiennes | Barton Simonson / Charleston Eyewitness / DeWitt Clinton / James Wilson / John D. Rockefeller / William Bradford |
Morgan Freeman | Frederick Douglass / Thurgood Marshall / Langston Hughes / Ernest Green |
Kevin Spacey | The Rev. Cotton Mather / Sidney Andrews / Ira Stewart / Herman Melville / Herbert Hoover / Gouvenor Morris |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Independence | |
2 | Revolution | |
3 | Liberty for All | |
4 | Wake Up America | |
5 | A Fatal Contradiction | |
6 | A War to End Slavery | |
7 | What Is Freedom? | |
8 | Whose Land Is This? | |
9 | Working for Freedom | |
10 | Yearning to Breathe Free | |
11 | Safe for Democracy | |
12 | Depression and War | |
13 | Democracy and Struggles | |
14 | Let Freedom Ring | |
15 | Marching to Freedom Land | |
16 | Becoming Free |
Directors
Nancy Steiner, Philip Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt
Writers
Joy Hakim, Philip Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, Nancy Steiner
Cast
Name | Character |
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Katie Couric | Self - Host |
Eric Foner | Commentary |
Tom Hanks | Abraham Lincoln / Reporter / Paul Revere / Jacob Coxey / Daniel Boone / Charles E. Wood |
Stanley Tucci | Tom Crafts / Sitting Bull / Sam Slater / Document Voice / Rutherford B. Hayes / Harper's Weekly / Magistrate / John O'Sullivan / Lieutenant Harry Rennagel / Frederick Bartholdi |
Kevin Kline | Thomas Jefferson / August Spies / Jacob Riis / Paul Potter / Robert Fulton |
Philip Bosco | Charles Nordhoff / Edouard De Laboulave / Frederick Law Olmstead / Newspaper Voice / James Madison / Peter Cooper / Samuel Adams / Samuel Gompers |
Matthew McConaughey | Mark Twain / John Swinton / Charles Fenno Hoffman / Captain W.W. Wood / Andrew Jackson / Alexander Stephens |
Ralph Fiennes | Barton Simonson / Charleston Eyewitness / DeWitt Clinton / James Wilson / John D. Rockefeller / William Bradford |
Morgan Freeman | Frederick Douglass / Thurgood Marshall / Langston Hughes / Ernest Green |
Kevin Spacey | The Rev. Cotton Mather / Sidney Andrews / Ira Stewart / Herman Melville / Herbert Hoover / Gouvenor Morris |
Michael Caine | Everett, Edward / Lord Cornwallis / Newspaper Editor / The Rev. John Cotton / William Pitt / William Wood / Steelworker |
Brad Pitt | William Lloyd Garrison / John Russell Young / James K. Polk / George Hewes / Albigence Waldo |
Samuel L. Jackson | Tecumseh / Marshal / John Rock / Isaiah Wears / Highland Garnet |
Dennis Quaid | Robert Ode / New York Times Reporter / George Mehales / Gen. Robert E. Lee / Andrew Jackson |
Anthony Hopkins | George Washington / John Winthrop / Robert Walsh / William Radcliffe |
Ving Rhames | W.E.B. DuBois / Petitioner / Josiah Benson |
Chevy Chase | Captain John Parker / Levi Coffin / Meriweather Lewis / Stockholder / Theodore Roosevelt |
Whoopi Goldberg | Harriet Tubman / Lucy Parsons / Millie Freeman / Patricia King / Sojourner Truth |
Robin Williams | Wilbur / Oliver Wright / Missouri Farmer / Josiah Quincy / Gen. Ulysses S. Grant |
Meryl Streep | Mother Jones / Mary Easty / Margaret Chase Smith / Abigail Adams |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Peter W. Kunhardt | Executive Producer |
Sandra Sheppard | Executive Producer |
Christopher Reeve | Producer |
Nancy Steiner | Producer |
Mendy Johnson | Producer |
Jill Cowan | Producer |
Joan Caron | Producer |
Philip Kunhardt III | Producer |
Dyllan McGee | Producer |
Jill Peters | Producer |
Mary Hope Garcia | Producer |
Brian Brunius | Producer |
Karen Sim | Producer |
Peter Tierney | Producer |
Lincoln Farr | Producer |