The American President

The American President (2000)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • First Air Date: 2000-04-09
  • Last Air Date: 2000-04-13
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 10
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 53 min.
  • Network: PBS
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Summary

“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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Season 1

First Air Date: 2000-04-09
10 Episodes

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  • Walter Cronkite

    as George Washington

  • Morley Safer

    as John Adams

  • Andrew Young

    as Thomas Jefferson

  • Dale Bumpers

    as James Madison

  • Robert MacNeil

    as James Monroe

  • George Will

    as John Quincy Adams

  • James Carville

    as Andrew Jackson

  • Mario Cuomo

    as Martin Van Buren

  • Lloyd Bentsen

    as William H. Harrison

  • Charlie Rose

    as John Tyler

  • Howard Baker

    as James K. Polk

  • Tim Russert

    as Millard Filmore

  • Sargent Shriver

    as Franklin Pierce

  • David Gergen

    as James Buchanan

  • Paul Simon

    as Abraham Lincoln

  • Don Imus

    as Andrew Johnson

  • Norman Schwarzkopf

    as Ulysses S. Grant

  • John Glenn

    as Rutherford B. Hayes

  • Billy Graham

    as James Garfield

  • Dan Rostenkowski

    as Chester A. Arthur

  • Lowell Weicker

    as Grover Cleveland

  • Alexander Haig

    as Benjamin Harrison

  • George Shultz

    as William McKinley

  • William F. Buckley Jr.

    as Theodore Roosevelt

  • Colin Powell

    as William H. Taft

  • George Mitchell

    as Woodrow Wilson

  • Ben Bradlee

    as Warren G. Harding

  • Bill Weld

    as Calvin Coolidge

  • Bob Dole

    as Herbert Hoover

  • Gerald Ford

    as Self

  • Jimmy Carter

    as Self

  • George H. W. Bush

    as Self

  • Bill Clinton

    as Self

  • James Roosevelt Jr.

    as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Production Caroline Waterlow Associate Producer
Directing James A. Edgar Director
Crew Jared Lipworth Post Production Supervisor

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