The American President

2000    53m    TV-G
7.7
“The American President” is a series that aired on PBS in 2000 profiling 41 U.S. chief executives, using exclusive interviews with Presidents Clinton, Bush, Ford, and Carter. Well known figures lend their voice to presidents of the past who lived before sound recordings, including: Colin Powell, Bob Dole, Walter Cronkite, Ben Bradlee, John Glenn, James Carville, Andrew Young, and the Rev. Billy Graham. Narrated by Hugh Sidey.
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1 Season
  • Season 1
    Season 110 Episodes
Cast of The American President
  • Walter CronkiteGeorge Washington
  • Morley SaferJohn Adams
  • Andrew YoungThomas Jefferson
  • Dale BumpersJames Madison
  • Robert MacNeilJames Monroe
  • George WillJohn Quincy Adams
  • James CarvilleAndrew Jackson
  • Mario CuomoMartin Van Buren
  • Lloyd BentsenWilliam H. Harrison
  • Charlie RoseJohn Tyler
  • Howard BakerJames K. Polk
  • Tom WickerZachary Taylor
  • Tim RussertMillard Filmore
  • Sargent ShriverFranklin Pierce
  • David GergenJames Buchanan
  • Paul SimonAbraham Lincoln
  • Don ImusAndrew Johnson
  • Norman SchwarzkopfUlysses S. Grant
  • John GlennRutherford B. Hayes
  • Billy GrahamJames Garfield
  • Dan RostenkowskiChester A. Arthur
  • Lowell WeickerGrover Cleveland
  • Alexander HaigBenjamin Harrison
  • George ShultzWilliam McKinley
  • William F. Buckley Jr.Theodore Roosevelt
  • Colin PowellWilliam H. Taft
  • George MitchellWoodrow Wilson
  • Ben BradleeWarren G. Harding
  • Bill WeldCalvin Coolidge
  • Bob DoleHerbert Hoover
  • Gerald FordSelf
  • Jimmy CarterSelf
  • George H. W. BushSelf
  • Bill ClintonSelf
  • James Roosevelt Jr.Franklin D. Roosevelt

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