The U.S. and the Holocaust

The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)

A history to be reckoned with.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Creator: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein
  • First Air Date: 2022-09-18
  • Last Air Date: 2022-09-21
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 3
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 132 min.
  • Production Company: Florentine Films
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Networks: PBS
  • Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein.
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Summary

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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The U.S. and the Holocaust Seasons

Season 0

First Air Date: 2022-09-08
2 Episodes

Season 1

First Air Date: 2022-09-18
3 Episodes

The U.S. and the Holocaust Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1Episode 1The Golden Door (Beginnings -- 1938)129 min
Season 1Episode 2Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942)138 min
Season 1Episode 3The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942 -- )131 min
  • Peter Coyote

    as Self - Narrator
  • Daniel Mendelsohn

    as Self - Writer
  • Peter Hayes

    as Self - Historian
  • Deborah Lipstadt

    as Self - Historian
  • Meryl Streep

    as Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Daniel Greene

    as Self - Historian
  • Guy Stern

    as Self - Hildesheim, U.S. Army
  • Rebecca Erbelding

    as Self - Historian
  • Werner Herzog

    as Hermann Göring
  • Paul Giamatti

    as Madison Grant
  • Liam Neeson

    as
  • Adam Arkin

    as (voice)
  • Joe Morton

    as (voice)
  • Elliott Gould

    as (voice)
  • Matthew Rhys

    as (voice)
  • Bradley Whitford

    as (voice)
Production Lynn Novick Producer
Writing Kevin Baker Writer
Production Mike Welt Producer
Directing Ken Burns Director
Directing Lynn Novick Director
Directing Sarah Botstein Director
Production Ken Burns Producer
Writing Geoffrey C. Ward Writer
Sound Mariusz Glabinski Sound Designer
Sound Matt Rigby Dialogue Editor
Sound Marlena Grzaslewicz Dialogue Editor
Camera Wojciech Staroń Director of Photography
Sound Johnny Gandelsman Music
Camera Buddy Squires Director of Photography
Editing Tricia Reidy Editor
Editing Charles E. Horton Editor