Discover
Original Release
2003
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Katie Couric | Self - Host |
| Eric Foner | Commentary |
| Kevin Kline | Thomas Jefferson / August Spies / Jacob Riis / Paul Potter / Robert Fulton |
| Tom Hanks | Abraham Lincoln / Reporter / Paul Revere / Jacob Coxey / Daniel Boone / Charles E. Wood |
| Philip Bosco | Charles Nordhoff / Edouard De Laboulave / Frederick Law Olmstead / Newspaper Voice / James Madison / Peter Cooper / Samuel Adams / Samuel Gompers |
| 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 |
| Morgan Freeman | Frederick Douglass / Thurgood Marshall / Langston Hughes / Ernest Green |
| Michael Caine | Everett, Edward / Lord Cornwallis / Newspaper Editor / The Rev. John Cotton / William Pitt / William Wood / Steelworker |
| Ralph Fiennes | Barton Simonson / Charleston Eyewitness / DeWitt Clinton / James Wilson / John D. Rockefeller / William Bradford |
| Matthew McConaughey | Mark Twain / John Swinton / Charles Fenno Hoffman / Captain W.W. Wood / Andrew Jackson / Alexander Stephens |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| Katie Couric | Self - Host |
| Eric Foner | Commentary |
| Kevin Kline | Thomas Jefferson / August Spies / Jacob Riis / Paul Potter / Robert Fulton |
| Tom Hanks | Abraham Lincoln / Reporter / Paul Revere / Jacob Coxey / Daniel Boone / Charles E. Wood |
| Philip Bosco | Charles Nordhoff / Edouard De Laboulave / Frederick Law Olmstead / Newspaper Voice / James Madison / Peter Cooper / Samuel Adams / Samuel Gompers |
| 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 |
| Morgan Freeman | Frederick Douglass / Thurgood Marshall / Langston Hughes / Ernest Green |
| Michael Caine | Everett, Edward / Lord Cornwallis / Newspaper Editor / The Rev. John Cotton / William Pitt / William Wood / Steelworker |
| Ralph Fiennes | Barton Simonson / Charleston Eyewitness / DeWitt Clinton / James Wilson / John D. Rockefeller / William Bradford |
| Matthew McConaughey | Mark Twain / John Swinton / Charles Fenno Hoffman / Captain W.W. Wood / Andrew Jackson / Alexander Stephens |
| Kevin Spacey | The Rev. Cotton Mather / Sidney Andrews / Ira Stewart / Herman Melville / Herbert Hoover / Gouvenor Morris |
| Ving Rhames | W.E.B. DuBois / Petitioner / Josiah Benson |
| Anthony Hopkins | George Washington / John Winthrop / Robert Walsh / William Radcliffe |
| Whoopi Goldberg | Harriet Tubman / Lucy Parsons / Millie Freeman / Patricia King / Sojourner Truth |
| Chevy Chase | Captain John Parker / Levi Coffin / Meriweather Lewis / Stockholder / Theodore Roosevelt |
| Samuel L. Jackson | Tecumseh / Marshal / John Rock / Isaiah Wears / Highland Garnet |
| Brad Pitt | William Lloyd Garrison / John Russell Young / James K. Polk / George Hewes / Albigence Waldo |
| Dennis Quaid | Robert Ode / New York Times Reporter / George Mehales / Gen. Robert E. Lee / Andrew Jackson |
| Dana Reeve | Agnes Loebeck / Catherine Beecher / Ida Tarbell / Louise Clappe |
| John Lithgow | Roger Williams / Justice Henry Billings Brown / Judge Ward Hunt / Benjamin Rush |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| 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 |
