The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999) | Full Cast

Peter Dean

Narrator

Charles Branham

Self - DuSable Museum of African-American History

Manning Marable

Self - Columbia University

James Weinstein

Self - Editor, In These Times

Richard Stacewicz

Self - Historian

Matthew Glover

Self - Theodore Roosevelt Association

James Startt

Self - Valparaiso University

Tom Gunning

Self - Univeristy of Chicago

Robert Daniels

Self - Historian

Thomas Knapp

Self - Loyola University (1999)

Wendy Snider

Narrator

Martin Aistrope

Additional Narration

Marty Callaghan

Additional Narration

Nicola Goelzhaeuser

Additional Narration

Howard Zinn

Self - Historian

Mark Caselberry

Additional Narration

Janet Hudson

Self - Historian

Charles King

Self - Eugene Debs Society

John Logue

Self - Historian

William Pelz

Self - Historian

Miles Richards

Self - University of South Carolina

Bob Koester

Self - Founder, Delmark Records

Robert Slayton

Self - Historian

Barbara Hartmann

Additional Narration

Stepan Borozenets

Self - Hero of Soviet Union

Yuliy Tentser

Self - World War II Veteran

Anatoliy Usha

Self - Leningrad Blockade Survivor

Revekka Fradkina

Self - Leningrad Blockade Survivor

John Dower

Self - M.I.T.

Elaine Tyler May

Self - Univeristy of Minnesota

Friedrich V. Kratochnil

Self - Univeristy of Munich

Philip Morrison

Self - Physicist

Gar Alperovitz

Self - University of Maryland

Richard Murphy

Self - Former Asst. Secretary of State

Edward Said

Self - Columbia University

Russell Ellis

Self - World War II Veteran

Walter LaFeber

Self - Cornell Univeristy

Jeff Chown

Self - Northern Illinois Univeristy

Victor Navasky

Self - Editor, The Nation

Thomas Reeves

Self - Univeristy of Wisconsin

Alfred Hitchcock

Self (archiveFootage)

James Stewart

Self (archiveFootage)

Humphrey Bogart

Self (archiveFootage)

Charles Chaplin

Self (archiveFootage)

Lauren Bacall

Self (archiveFootage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archiveFootage)

Orson Welles

Self (archiveFootage)

Gary Cooper

Self (archiveFootage)

Clark Gable

Self (archiveFootage)

Shirley Temple

Self (archiveFootage)

Stan Laurel

Self (archiveFootage)

Mae West

Self (archiveFootage)

Danny Kaye

Self (archiveFootage)

Clara Bow

Self (archiveFootage)

Oliver Hardy

Self (archiveFootage)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archiveFootage)

Joe DiMaggio

Self (archiveFootage)

Babe Ruth

Self (archiveFootage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archiveFootage)

Will Rogers

Self (archiveFootage)

Mao Zedong

Self (archiveFootage)

George Bernard Shaw

Self (archiveFootage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archiveFootage)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archiveFootage)

Albert Einstein

Self (archiveFootage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archiveFootage)

Hermann Göring

Self (archiveFootage)

Benny Goodman

Self (archiveFootage)

Joseph P. Kennedy

Self (archiveFootage)

John D. Rockefeller

Self (archiveFootage)

Walter Winchell

Self (archiveFootage)

Rex Bell

Self (archiveFootage)

Jesse Owens

Self (archiveFootage)

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Self (archiveFootage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archiveFootage)

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (archiveFootage)

Helen Keller

Self (archiveFootage)

Jackie Robinson

Self (archiveFootage)

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Self (archiveFootage)

V.I. Lenin

Self (archiveFootage)

Tsar Nicholas II

Self (archiveFootage)

Lou Gehrig

Self (archiveFootage)

Harry S. Truman

Self (archiveFootage)

Amelia Earhart

Self (archiveFootage)

Thomas A. Edison

Self (archiveFootage)

Charles A. Lindbergh

Self (archiveFootage)

Jawaharlal Nehru

Self (archiveFootage)

Theodore Roosevelt

Self (archiveFootage)

William McKinley

Self (archiveFootage)

Douglas MacArthur

Self (archiveFootage)

Duke of Windsor

Self (archiveFootage)

John L. Lewis

Self (archiveFootage)

Calvin Coolidge

Self (archiveFootage)

Michael Collins

Self (archiveFootage)

Texas Guinan

Self (archiveFootage)

Woodrow Wilson

Self (archiveFootage)

Leon Trotsky

Self (archiveFootage)

Enrico Caruso

Self (archiveFootage)

Erwin Rommel

Self (archiveFootage)

Thomas E. Dewey

Self (archiveFootage)

Marian Anderson

Self (archiveFootage)

Herbert Hoover

Self (archiveFootage)

Warren G. Harding

Self (archiveFootage)

Branch Rickey

Self (archiveFootage)

Orville Wright

Self (archiveFootage)

William Howard Taft

Self (archiveFootage)

Huey Long

Self

Philippe Pétain

Self (archiveFootage)

Guglielmo Marconi

Self (archiveFootage)

Hank Greenberg

Self (archiveFootage)

Max Schmeling

Self (archiveFootage)

Eddie Rickenbacker

Self (archiveFootage)

E.J. Smith

Self (archiveFootage)

David Lloyd George

Self (archiveFootage)

Wilbur Wright

Self (archiveFootage)

Leon Czolgosz

Self (archiveFootage)

Bruno Richard Hauptmann

Self (archiveFootage)

Dorothy Carless

Self (archiveFootage)

Charles Lindbergh Jr.

Self (archiveFootage)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Self (archiveFootage)

Georges Clemenceau

Self (archiveFootage)

Billy Sunday

Self (archiveFootage)

Whittaker Chambers

Self (archiveFootage)

Alger Hiss

Self (archiveFootage)

Robert R. McCormick

Self (archiveFootage)

Eugene Pini

Self (archiveFootage)

Paul Reynaud

Self (archiveFootage)

Margaret Rung

Self - Roosevelt University

Dan LaBotz

Self - Historian

Jack Spiegal

Self - Union Activist

Joe Lewis

Self (archiveFootage)