Director
David Belton
DIRECTOR
Sarah Colt
Stars (in credits order)
Campbell Scott
Self - Narrator
Michael Stuhlbarg
Isaac Mayer Wise
Michael Emerson
John Winthrop
Keith David
Frederick Douglass
Zahn McClarnon
Po'pay
Chris Sarandon
Abraham Lincoln
Laila Robins
Anne Hutchinson
Toby Jones
George Whitefield
Jeffrey DeMunn
John Hughes
Kenneth Tigar
William Jennings Bryan
Peter McRobbie
Thomas Dudley
Jefferson Mays
Jeremiah Moore
Bryce Pinkham
Charles A. Briggs
Cotter Smith
Northern Minister and General Assembly Orator
Byron Jennings
Thomas Jefferson
Richard Easton
Clarence Darrow
Will Lyman
Narrator
John Ahlin
Southern Minister #2
Creighton James
James B. Finley
Sam Tsoutsouvas
Rev. Phineas Gurley
Jimmy Hager
Southern Minister #1
Sarah Jannett Parish
Rural girl
Cory Scott
Antislavery Minister
Nico Ward
Woman whipped
Gary Yudman
Rev. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
John McGreevy
Self - Historian, University of Notre Dame
Lauren F. Winner
Self - Historian of Religion, Duke University
Sarah Parish
Les Papp II
Rural Man
Joe A. Garcia
Self - Okhay Owingeh Pueblo
Jack Clark Robinson
Self - Franciscan Friar
Mark S. Massa
Self - Theologian, Boston College
Stephen Marini
Self - Historian of Religion, Wellesley College
Joseph H. Suina
Self - Historian, University of New Mexico
Daniel Dreisbach
Self - Legal Scholar, American University
Stephen Prothero
Self - Professor of Religion, Boston University
Michael P. Winship
Self - Historian, University of Georgia
Frank Lambert
Self - Historian, Purdue University
Porter Swentzell
Self - Santa Clara Pueblo
Harry Stout
Self - Historian, Yale University
Richard Shaw
Self - Roman Catholic Priest
Cynthia Lynn Lyerly
Self - Historian, Boston College
James Slatton
Self - Baptist Minister
Catherine Brekus
Self - Historian, University of Chicago
Mary Beth Norton
Self - Historian, Cornell University
Ellen Adair
Assistant Mother Superior
Jeff Rose
1860 Minister
Dan Marshall
Franciscan #1
Lewis D. Wheeler
John Hay
Reagan Leonard
Irish mother
Darius Bridges
Slave
James Middleton
Slave Man #3
Heidi Gennaro
Rural woman
Kenny Roach
Boy In Field
David Weindel
Puritin Minister