Peter Coyote

Self - Narrator (voice)

Daniel Okrent

Self - Author

Pete Hamill

Self - Historian

Noah Feldman

Self - Legal Scholar

Adam Arkin

Reader (voice)

Philip Bosco

Reader (voice)

Patricia Clarkson

Reader / Carrie Nation (voice)

Kevin Conway

Reader (voice)

Blythe Danner

Reader (voice)

Paul Giamatti

Reader / George Remus (voice)

Tom Hanks

Reader / Roy Olmstead (voice)

Jeremy Irons

Reader (voice)

Samuel L. Jackson

Reader (voice)

John Lithgow

Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)

Josh Lucas

Reader (voice)

Amy Madigan

Reader (voice)

Carolyn McCormick

Reader (voice)

Oliver Platt

Reader / Al Capone (voice)

Campbell Scott

Reader / F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice)

Frances Sternhagen

Reader (voice)

Joanne Tucker

Reader (voice)

Sam Waterston

Reader (voice)

John Paul Stevens

Self

Freddie Johnson

Self - Historian

Dorothea Brown

Self

Studs Terkel

Self - Writer

Roger Angell

Self

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Hymie Weiss

Self (archive footage)

Buddy Squires

Director of Photography

Maria Torfeld

Makeup Artist

Ken Burns

Director

Lynn Novick

Director

Christopher Darling

Assistant Director

Ryan Gifford

Editor

Erik Ewers

Editor

Tricia Reidy

Editor

Anthony Savini

Gaffer

Ken Burns

Executive Producer

Mike Welt

Co-Producer

McKay McFadden

Associate Producer

Lynn Novick

Producer

Jean Lane

Producer

Karen Kenton

Producer

Sarah Botstein

Producer

Wynton Marsalis

Music Arranger

Robert Silverthorne

Sound Recordist

David Obermeyer

Sound Recordist

David Cieri

Original Music Composer

Mark Roy

Sound Recordist

Doug Wamble

Original Music Composer

Dominick Tavella

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

John Zecca

Sound Recordist

Scott Harber

Sound Recordist

Geoffrey C. Ward

Writer