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The U.S. and the Holocaust

Documentary
"A history to be reckoned with."

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.

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Peter Coyote

Self - Narrator

Daniel Mendelsohn

Self - Writer

Peter Hayes

Self - Historian

Deborah Lipstadt

Self - Historian

Meryl Streep

Eleanor Roosevelt

Daniel Greene

Self - Historian

Guy Stern

Self - Hildesheim, U.S. Army

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)

Kevin Baker

Writer

Lynn Novick

Director

Ken Burns

Producer

Mike Welt

Producer

Ken Burns

Director

Lynn Novick

Producer

Geoffrey C. Ward

Writer

Sarah Botstein

Director

Marlena Grzaslewicz

Dialogue Editor

Matt Rigby

Dialogue Editor

Mariusz Glabinski

Sound Designer

Charles E. Horton

Editor

Buddy Squires

Director of Photography

Tricia Reidy

Editor

Johnny Gandelsman

Music

Wojciech Staroń

Director of Photography

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