Riven

David McCullough

as Narrator

Sam Waterston

as Abraham Lincoln

Julie Harris

as Mary Chestnut

Jason Robards

as Ulysses S. Grant

Morgan Freeman

as Frederick Douglass

Paul Roebling

as Joshua Chamberlain

Garrison Keillor

as Walt Whitman

George Black

as Robert E. Lee

Arthur Miller

as William Tecumseh Sherman

Christopher Murney

as Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Charles McDowell

as Samuel R. Watkins

Horton Foote

as Jefferson Davis

George Plimpton

as George Templeton Strong

Philip Bosco

as Horace Greeley

Terry Courier

as George B. McClellan

Jody Powell

as Stonewall Jackson / Various

Studs Terkel

as Benjamin Butler / Various

Hoyt Axton

as Various

John Hartford

as Various

Colleen Dewhurst

as Various

Shelby Foote

as Various

Ronnie Gilbert

as Various

Jeremy Irons

as Various

Gene Jones

as Various

Derek Jacobi

as Various

Kurt Vonnegut

as Various

Laurence Fishburne

as Various

Pamela Reed

as Various

M. Emmet Walsh

as Various

Paul Barnes

Editor

Jay Ungar

Original Music Composer

Ken Burns

Director of Photography

Stephen Ives

Producer

Catherine Yang Eisele

Producer

Mike Hill

Producer

Julie A. Dunfey

Producer

Ric Burns

Producer

Ken Burns

Executive Producer