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"The U.S. and the Holocaust" Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942) (TV Episode 2022) Poster

(TV Mini Series)

(2022)

Full Cast & Crew

Directed by 

Sarah Botstein
Ken Burns
Lynn Novick

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)  

Geoffrey C. Ward

Cast (in credits order)  

Peter Coyote ... Narrator (voice)
Daniel Mendelsohn ... Self - Writer
Guy Stern ... Self - St. Louis, Missouri (as Günther Stern)
Peter Hayes ... Self - Historian
Deborah Lipstadt ... Self - Historian
Mae Ngai ... Self - Historian
Daniel Greene ... Self - Historian
Susan Hilsenrath ... Self - Bad Kreuznach, Germany
Joseph Hilsenrath ... Self - Bad Kreuznach, Germany
Nell Irvin Painter ... Self - Historian
Marlene Jaeger Mendelsohn ... Self - Shmiel's Niece
Sol Messinger ... Self - Berlin, Germany
Eva Geiringer ... Self - Vienna, Austria
Rebecca Erbelding ... Self - Historian
Timothy Snyder ... Self - Historian
Adam Arkin ... (voice)
Paul Corning Paul Corning ... (voice)
Leon Dische Becker Leon Dische Becker ... (voice) (as Léon Dische Becker)
Paul Giamatti ... (voice)
Olivia Gilliatt ... (voice)
Elliott Gould
Murphy Guyer ... (voice)
Carolyn McCormick ... (voice)
Joe Morton ... (voice)
Matthew Rhys ... (voice)
Bradley Whitford ... Senator William Borah (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hiram Bingham IV ... Self - American Vice Consul in Marseilles, France (archive footage)
Avery Brundage ... Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage)
Winston Churchill ... Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (archive footage)
Father Coughlin ... Self - Priest & Radio Personality (archive footage)
Hope Davis ... (voice)
Thomas E. Dewey ... Self - New York County District Attorney (archive footage)
Adolf Eichmann ... Self - S.S. Final Solution Administrator (archive footage)
Henry Ford ... Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage)
Anne Frank ... Self - Jewish Victim of the Holocaust (archive footage) (as Annelies Frank)
Edith Frank ... Self - Mother of Anne and Margot Frank (archive footage)
Margot Frank ... Self - Sister of Anne Frank (archive footage)
Otto Frank ... Self - Father of Anne and Margot Frank (archive footage)
Varian Fry ... Self - Writer & Member of Emergency Rescue Committee (archive footage)
Lillian Gish ... Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage)
Mariusz Glabinski Mariusz Glabinski ... (voice)
Hermann Göring ... Self - Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe (archive footage)
Werner Herzog ... Hermann Göring (voice)
Reinhard Heydrich ... Self - S.S. Second in Command (archive footage)
Heinrich Himmler ... Self - Reichsführer-SS (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler ... Self - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover ... Self - Head of the FBI (archive footage)
Cordell Hull ... Self - U.S. Secretary of State (archive footage)
Abraham Jaeger ... Self - Daniel Mendelsohn's Grandfather (archive footage)
Ruchele Jaeger ... Self - Shmiel Jaeger's Third Daughter (archive footage)
Shmiel Jaeger ... Self - Daniel Mendelsohn's Great Uncle (archive footage)
Fritz Kuhn ... Self - German-American Bund Leader (archive footage)
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze ... Self - Speaker at German-American Bund Rally (voice) (archive footage)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh ... Self - Wife of Charles Lindberg (archive footage)
Charles A. Lindbergh ... Self - Chief Spokesman, America First Committee (archive footage)
Breckenridge Long ... Self - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (archive footage)
Alice Roosevelt Longworth ... Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage)
Josh Lucas ... (voice)
Vyacheslav Molotov ... Self - Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage)
Edward R. Murrow ... Self - Radio Journalist (voice) (archive footage)
Liam Neeson ... Polish Holocaust victim (voice)
Robert Reynolds ... Self - U.S. Senator from North Carolina (archive footage)
Eddie Rickenbacker ... Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage)
Eleanor Roosevelt ... Self - First Lady of the United States (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt ... Self - 32nd President of the United States (archive footage)
Gustave Schröder ... Self - Captain of the 'St. Lous' (archive footage)
Ida Mae Schwartzberg ... Self - Günther Stern's Girlfriend (archive footage)
Fulton J. Sheen ... Self (archive footage)
Alfred E. Smith ... Self - Former Governor of New York (archive footage) (as Al Smith)
Joseph Stalin ... Self - Leader of the Soviet Union (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin)
Julius Stern ... Self - Father of Günther Stern (archive footage)
Nathan Straus Jr. ... Self - Head of U.S. Federal Housing Authority (archive footage) (as Charley Straus)
Meryl Streep ... Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
Joachim von Ribbentrop ... Self - Reichsminister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage)
Wendell Willkie ... Self - Republican Presidential Nominee 1940 (archive footage)
Stephen Wise ... Self - Rabbi (archive footage)
Robert E. Wood ... Self - Co-Founder of America First Committee (archive footage) (as General Robert E. Wood)

Produced by 

Sarah Botstein ... producer
Ken Burns ... producer
Lucas Frank ... co-producer
Vanessa Gonzalez-Block ... associate producer
Madeline Little ... associate producer
Lynn Novick ... producer
Stephen Sowers ... consulting archival producer
Mike Welt ... producer

Editing by 

Charles E. Horton

Production Management 

Daniel J. White ... post-production supervisor

Sound Department 

Josh Berger ... re-recording mixer
Mariusz Glabinski ... sound designer
Marlena Grzaslewicz ... dialogue editor
Lisa McClung ... producer: sound post
Jay Peck ... foley artist
Matt Rigby ... assistant sound editor
John Werner ... sound designer

Camera and Electrical Department 

Christopher Loren Ewers ... additional cinematography

Animation Department 

Mizuho Endo ... Animation Producer
Ariel Martian ... design & animation team
Molly Schwartz ... director of design and animation

Editorial Department 

Lynne Carrión ... Apprentice Editor
Nate Davis ... film scanner
Jack Lewars ... colorist
Patriciana Tenicela ... finishing producer

Music Department 

David Cieri ... musician
Johnny Gandelsman ... music producer
Jacob Ribicoff ... music editor

Additional Crew 

Victor Belyakov ... Additional Research
Sergey Bukovsky ... Additional Research
Boris Iván Crespo ... Additional Research
Michael Dolan ... Additional Research
Steve Green ... Additional Research
Michael McCormack ... legal services
Nguyen Hang Nhat ... Additional Research
Gerard Nijssen ... Additional Research
Drew Patrick ... legal services
Polly Pettit ... Additional Research
Justyna Rutkowska ... Additional Research
Harry van Biessum ... Additional Research
Lance Watsky ... Additional Research

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