The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022 — 2022
Has Ended
Overview
Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement...More
Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.
Cast and crew
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Ken Burns
Director
Lynn Novick
Director
SB
Sarah Botstein
Director
Peter Coyote
Self - Narrator
DM
Daniel Mendelsohn
Self - Writer
PH
Peter Hayes
Self - Historian
DL
Deborah Lipstadt
Self - Historian
Meryl Streep
Eleanor Roosevelt
DG
Daniel Greene
Self - Historian
GS
Guy Stern
Self - Hildesheim
RE
Rebecca Erbelding
Self - Historian
Werner Herzog
Hermann Göring
Paul Giamatti
Madison Grant
Liam Neeson
Adam Arkin
(voice)
Joe Morton
(voice)
Elliott Gould
(voice)
Matthew Rhys
(voice)
Bradley Whitford
(voice)