The Soul of America (2020)

6.3/10 77 min Documentary

Overview

Writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer John Meacham offers his timely and invaluable insights into the country’s current political and historical moment by examining its past. Based on his 2018 bestseller of the same name.

Cast

Jon Meacham

Self

John Lewis

Self (archive footage)

George Takei

Self

Lisa Tetrault

Self

Donald Tamaki

Self

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Jon Stewart

Self (archive footage)

John Grisham

Self

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

George W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

George H. W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Jeb Bush

Self (archive footage)

Joseph McCarthy

Self (archive footage)

Edward R. Murrow

Self (archive footage)

Peter Jennings

Self (archive footage)

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