This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.
Mark Zwonitzer
Director, Writer
J.K. Simmons
Narrator (voice)
Chris Cooper
Walt Whitman (voice)
Walt Whitman
Self (archive footage)
I Am Heath Ledger74%
For the Love of Spock73%
Audrey71%
My Mom Jayne79%
That's Entertainment!73%
Being James Bond77%
Looking for Richard68%
Hawking76%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
The Captains63%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Maria by Callas73%
Naqoyqatsi61%
Love, Marilyn66%
Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon81%
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound69%
Alone in the Wilderness79%
Western Stars70%
The Last Waltz76%
Muscle Shoals72%
