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"The U.S. and the Holocaust" The Golden Door (Beginnings-1938) (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)
Peter Hayes ... Self - Historian
Daniel Mendelsohn ... Self - Writer
Rebecca Erbelding ... Self - Historian
Daniel Greene ... Self - Historian
Nell Irvin Painter ... Self - Historian
Deborah Lipstadt ... Self - Historian
Guy Stern ... Self - Hildesheim, Germany (as Günther Stern)
Daniel Okrent ... Self - Writer
Timothy Snyder ... Self - Historian
Sol Messinger ... Self - Berlin, Germany
Susan Hilsenrath ... Self - Bad Kreuznach, Germany
Joseph Hilsenrath ... Self - Bad Kreuznach, Germany
Eva Geiringer ... Self - Vienna, Austria
Adam Arkin ... (voice)
Paul Corning Paul Corning ... (voice)
Leon Dische Becker Leon Dische Becker ... (voice) (as Léon Dische Becker)
Paul Giamatti ... Madison Grant (voice)
Olivia Gilliatt ... (voice)
Elliott Gould ... (voice)
Murphy Guyer ... (voice)
Carolyn McCormick ... (voice)
Joe Morton ... (voice)
Matthew Rhys ... (voice)
Bradley Whitford ... Thomas Wolfe (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Thomas Bailey Aldrich ... Self - Writer & Poet (archive footage)
Alexander Graham Bell ... Self - Inventor (archive footage)
Herman Bland ... Self - Polish American Jew (archive footage)
Lotte Bland ... Self - Polish American Jew (archive footage)
Louis Brodsky ... Self - Judge (archive footage)
Avery Brundage ... Self - President of the United States Olympic Committee (archive footage)
Emanuel Celler ... Self - U.S. Congressman from New York (archive footage)
Neville Chamberlain ... Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (archive footage)
Calvin Coolidge ... Self - 30th President of the United States (archive footage)
Father Coughlin ... Self - Priest & Radio Personality (archive footage)
Édouard Daladier ... Self - Prime Minister of France (archive footage)
Cecil B. DeMille ... Self - Film Director (archive footage)
William E. Dodd ... Self - U.S. Ambassador to Germany (archive footage)
Henry Ford ... Self - Founder of Ford Motor Company (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels ... Self - Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (archive footage)
Madison Grant ... Self - Conservationist (archive footage)
Herschel Grynszpan ... Self - German Jew Who Killed Ernst vom Rath (archive footage)
Hermann Göring ... Self - Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler ... Self - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany (archive footage)
Herbert Hoover ... Self - 31st President of the United States (archive footage)
Cordell Hull ... Self - U.S. Secretary of State (archive footage)
Helen Keller ... Self - Author & Disability Rights Advocate (archive footage)
Emma Lazarus ... Self - Writer & Poet (archive footage)
Golda Meir ... Self - Future Prime Minister of Israel (archive footage)
Henry Morgenthau Jr. ... Self - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (archive footage)
Edgar Ansel Mower ... Self - Journalist, Chicago Daily News (archive footage)
Gerald Nye ... Self - U.S. Senator from North Dakota (archive footage)
Jesse Owens ... Self - Olympics Athlete (archive footage)
William Dudley Pelley ... Self - Founder of the Silver Legion of America (archive footage)
Frances Perkins ... Self - U.S. Secretary of Labor (archive footage)
Joseph Proskauer ... Self - New York Supreme Court Justice (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)
Theodore Roosevelt ... Self -26th President of the United States (archive footage)
Margaret Sanger ... Self - Birth Control Activist (archive footage)
Alfred E. Smith ... Self - Former Governor of New York (archive footage) (as Al Smith)
Hedwig Stern ... Self - Mother of Günther Stern (archive footage)
Julius Stern ... Self - Father of Günther Stern (archive footage)
Dorothy Thompson ... Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Stephen Wise ... Self - Rabbi (archive footage)

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
Lisa McClung ... producer: sound post
Jay Peck ... foley artist
Matt Rigby ... assistant sound editor / dialogue editor

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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