Episodes cast for
"Freedom: A History of Us" (2003) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1
Year: 2003

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: Independence

	Philip Bosco	...	Samuel Adams
	Michael Caine	...	William Pitt
	Chevy Chase	...	Captain John Parker
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Eric Foner	...	Commentary
	Richard Gere	...	Patrick Henry
	John Goodman	...	Benjamin Harrison
	Tom Hanks	...	Paul Revere
	Anthony Hopkins	...	George Washington
	Jeremy Irons	...	Thomas Paine
	Kevin Kline	...	Thomas Jefferson
	John Lithgow	...	Benjamin Rush
	Brad Pitt	...	George Hewes
	Campbell Scott	...	William Prescott
	Martin Sheen	...	John Adams
	Meryl Streep	...	Abigail Adams
	Stanley Tucci	...	Tom Crafts

Season 1, Episode 2: Revolution

	Philip Bosco	...	James madison
	Michael Caine	...	Lord Cornwallis
	Chevy Chase	...	Meriweather Lewis
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Michael Douglas	...	Benjamin Franklin
	Ralph Fiennes	...	James Wilson
	Eric Foner	...	Commentary
	Anthony Hopkins	...	George Washington
	Kevin Kline	...	Thomas Jefferson
	Brad Pitt	...	Albigence Waldo
	Ving Rhames	...	Petitioner
	Susan Sarandon	...	Mary Hagidorn
	Kevin Spacey	...	Gouvenor Morris
	Raoul Trujillo	...	John Allen / Matthew Lyon

Season 1, Episode 3: Liberty for All

	Michael Caine	...	The Rev. John Cotton
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Ralph Fiennes	...	William Bradford
	Eric Foner	...	Commentary
	Graham Greene	...	Red Jacket
	Tom Hanks	...	Daniel Boone
	Anthony Hopkins	...	John, Winthrop
	Jeremy Irons	...	Kign James I
	Samuel L. Jackson	...	Tecumseh
	Kevin Kline	...	Thomas Jefferson
	John Lithgow	...	Roger Williams
	Brad Pitt	...	James K. Polk
	Dennis Quaid	...	Andrew Jackson
	Dana Reeve	...	Louise Clappe
	Kevin Spacey	...	The Rev. Cotton Mather
	Meryl Streep	...	Mary Easty
	Raoul Trujillo	...	Cherokee spokesperson
	Stanley Tucci	...	Magistrate / John O'Sullivan
	Robin Williams	...	Missouri Farmer
	Reese Witherspoon	...	Susan Magoffin

Season 1, Episode 4: Wake Up America

	Jennifer Aniston	...	Jessie Benton
	Philip Bosco	...	Peter Cooper
	Michael Caine	...	Everett, Edward
	Harry Connick Jr.	...	Jeff Thompson
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Ralph Fiennes	...	DeWitt Clinton
	Eric Foner
	Whoopi Goldberg	...	Sojourner Truth
	Tom Hanks	...	Reporter
	Anthony Hopkins	...	William Radcliffe
	Kevin Kline	...	Robert Fulton
	Matthew McConaughey	...	Charles Fenno Hoffman
	Dana Reeve	...	Catherine Beecher
	Tim Robbins	...	Moses Brown
	Kevin Spacey	...	Herman Melville
	Stanley Tucci	...	Sam Slater / Document Voice
	Robin Williams	...	Josiah Quincy

Season 1, Episode 5: A Fatal Contradiction

	Philip Bosco	...	Frederick Law Olmstead / Newspaper Voice
	Chevy Chase	...	Levi Coffin
	Dabney Coleman	...	Stephen A.Douglas
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Ralph Fiennes	...	Charleston Eyewitness
	Eric Foner	...	Commentary
	Morgan Freeman	...	Frederick Douglass
	Whoopi Goldberg	...	Harriet Tubman
	Graham Greene	...	Newspaper Voice
	Tom Hanks	...	Abraham Lincoln
	Anthony Hopkins	...	Walsh, Robert
	Samuel L. Jackson	...	Highland Garnet
	Matthew McConaughey	...	Alexander Stephens
	Fred Owens	...	Eighteen Century Slave
	Brad Pitt	...	William Lloyd Garrison
	Ving Rhames	...	Josiah Benson
	John Seigenthaler	...	North Carolina Law

Season 1, Episode 6: A War to End Slavery

	Matthew Broderick	...	Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
	Glenn Close	...	Eliza Andrews
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Billy Crystal	...	Union Soldier
	Michael Douglas	...	Benjamin French
	Eric Foner	...	Commentary
	Morgan Freeman	...	Frederick Douglass
	Tom Hanks	...	Abraham Lincoln
	Samuel L. Jackson	...	John Rock
	Stacy Keach	...	General George B. McClellan
	Philip Kunhardt Jr.	...	William Meserve
	Matthew McConaughey	...	Captain W.W. Wood
	Fred Owens	...	Robert Purvis
	Brad Pitt	...	John Russell Young
	Dennis Quaid	...	Gen. Robert E. Lee
	Tim Robbins	...	Gen, Winfield Scott Hancock
	Al Roker	...	Christian redorder editor
	Robin Williams	...	Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

Season 1, Episode 7: What Is Freedom?

	Philip Bosco	...	Charles Nordhoff
	Matthew Broderick	...	Justice John Marshall Harlan
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Charles S. Dutton	...	Benjamin Arnett
	Eric Foner	...	Commentary
	Morgan Freeman	...	Frederick Douglass
	Whoopi Goldberg	...	Millie Freeman
	Samuel L. Jackson	...	Isaiah Wears
	John Lithgow	...	Justice Henry Billings Brown
	Matthew McConaughey	...	Andrew Jackson
	Fred Owens	...	Ben Johnson'Frankfort Petition
	Aidan Quinn	...	Philadelphia Press Editorial
	Ving Rhames	...	E.E.B. DuBois
	Julia Roberts	...	Virginia Eyewitness
	Al Roker	...	Henry McNeal Turner
	Martin Sheen	...	Thaddeus Stevens
	Kevin Spacey	...	Sidney Andrews
	Stanley Tucci	...	Rutherford B. Hayes / Harper's Weekly

Season 1, Episode 8: Whose Land Is This?

	Matthew Broderick	...	Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
	Glenn Close	...	Mary Antin
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Eric Foner	...	Commentary
	Graham Greene	...	Crazy, Horse
	Tom Hanks	...	Charles E. Wood
	Bobby Kennedy	...	Chief Joseph
	Kevin Kline	...	Jacob Riis
	Monique Mojica	...	Old Lady Horse
	William Reeve	...	Lone Wolf
	Tim Robbins	...	Workingmen's Party Voice
	Stanley Tucci	...	Sitting Bull
	Reese Witherspoon	...	Sarah Raymond

Season 1, Episode 9: Working for Freedom

	Philip Bosco	...	Samuel Gompers
	Michael Caine	...	William Wood / Steelworker
	Chevy Chase	...	Stockholder
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Blythe Danner	...	Appleton's Journal
	Ralph Fiennes	...	Barton Simonson
	Eric Foner	...	Commentary
	Whoopi Goldberg	...	Lucy Parsons
	John Goodman	...	William 'Big Bill' Haywood
	Tom Hanks	...	Jacob Coxey
	Samuel L. Jackson	...	Marshal
	Kevin Kline	...	August Spies
	John Lithgow	...	Judge Ward Hunt
	Matthew McConaughey	...	John Swinton
	Susan Sarandon	...	Susan B. Anthony
	Kevin Spacey	...	Ira Stewart

Season 1, Episode 10: Yearning to Breathe Free

	Jane Alexander	...	Jane Addams
	Philip Bosco	...	Edouard De Laboulave
	Michael Caine	...	Nerwspaper Editor
	Chevy Chase	...	Theodore Roosevelt
	Sean Connery	...	John Muir
	Harry Connick Jr.	...	Joseph Pulitzer
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Blythe Danner	...	Emma Lazarus
	Ralph Fiennes	...	John D. Rockefeller
	Eric Foner	...	Commentary
	Matthew McConaughey	...	Mark Twain
	Dana Reeve	...	Ida Tarbell
	Julia Roberts	...	Appleton;s Journal
	Meryl Streep	...	Mother Jones
	Stanley Tucci	...	Frederick Bartholdi
	Reese Witherspoon	...	Factory Girl

Season 1, Episode 11: Safe for Democracy

	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Richard Gere	...	Lloyd Staley
	Jeremy Irons	...	Lord Grey
	Paul Newman	...	Woodrow Wilson
	Dennis Quaid	...	New York Times Reporter
	Aidan Quinn	...	Mob Member
	Dana Reeve	...	Agnes Loebeck
	Ving Rhames	...	W.E.B. DuBois
	Martin Sheen	...	Charles Lindberg
	Stanley Tucci	...	Lieutenant Harry Rennagel
	Robin Williams	...	Wilbur / Oliver Wright
	Joanne Woodward	...	Anne Martin

Season 1, Episode 12: Depression and War

	Ryley Bush	...	Earle curtis
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Dennis Quaid	...	George Mehales
	Campbell Scott	...	Ickes, Harold
	Martin Sheen	...	John Dos Passos
	Kevin Spacey	...	Herbert Hoover
	Kristi Yamaguchi	...	Haruko Obata

Season 1, Episode 13: Democracy and Struggles

	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Charles S. Dutton	...	Negro Student
	Morgan Freeman	...	Thurgood Marshall
	Paul Newman	...	Justice Earl Warren
	Meryl Streep	...	Margaret Chase Smith

Season 1, Episode 14: Let Freedom Ring

	Angela Bassett	...	Melba Pattillo
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Morgan Freeman	...	Ernest Green
	Whoopi Goldberg	...	Patricia King
	Ving Rhames	...	W.E, B. DuBois
	John Seigenthaler	...	Eugene 'Bull' Connor

Season 1, Episode 15: Marching to Freedom Land

	Angela Bassett	...	Sheyann Webb
	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Kevin Kline	...	Paul Potter

Season 1, Episode 16: Becoming Free

	Katie Couric	...	Herself - Host
	Morgan Freeman	...	Langston Hughes
	Dennis Quaid	...	Robert Ode