Director
Ric Burns
DIRECTOR
Stars (in credits order)
David Ogden Stiers
Narrator
Kenneth Jackson
Self - Commentator
Mike Wallace
ACTOR
Robert A.M. Stern
John Steele Gordon
Pete Hamill
Philip Bosco
Brendan Gill
Eli Wallach
George Plimpton
David McCullough
Robert A. Caro
Luc Sante
Calvin O. Butts III
Alfred Kazin
Craig Steven Wilder
Keith David
Paul Giamatti
Callie Thorne
Fran Lebowitz
Rudy Giuliani
Robert Sean Leonard
Daniel Czitrom
Peter Quinn
Spalding Gray
Self - Comentator
Allen Ginsberg
David Levering Lewis
Marshall Berman
Carol Willis
Josh Hamilton
Frances Sternhagen
James Hazeldine
Caleb Carr
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
John Kuo Wei Tchen
Phillip Lopate
Joshua Freeman
Janeane Garofalo
Harris Yulin
Frederic Kimball
Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
Thomas Bender
Ruth J. Abram
Margo Jefferson
David Margulies
Carol Berkin
Susan Sarandon
Donald Trump Jr.
Ed Koch
Bella Abzug
Anna Quindlen
Ada Louise Huxtable
Frances Goldin
Ray Suarez
Cheryl Greenberg
Martin Scorsese
Joan Allen
Donald Trump
Joe Morton
Ron Silver
Tony Kushner
Frank McCourt
E.L. Doctorow
Marlena Grzaslewicz
Andrei Codrescu
Isaiah Sheffer
Christine Stansell
Michael Wallace
Self
Ann Douglas
Kathy Peiss
Joel Silverman
Jean Strouse
Nancy Groce
Frank Pellegrino
Philippe Petit
Niall Ferguson
Paul Goldberger
James Glanz
Edward Herrmann
Lois Smith
Gene Jones
George W.S. Trow
Patrick McGrath
Eric Lipton
Mrs. Vincent Astor
Louis Armstrong
Self(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Winston Churchill
Self (with Al Smith atop Empire State Bldg)(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
George Gershwin
Self (plays piano)(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Richard Rodgers
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Irving Berlin
Duke Ellington
John V. Lindsay
Fiorello LaGuardia
Robert Moses
Alfred E. Smith
Self (opens Empire State Bldg)(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Jimmy Walker
Abraham Beame
Self (Mayor of New York City)(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
John Jakob Raskob
Self (Empire State Bldg)(uncredited)(archiveFootage)