Overview - The Congress

Overview

For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions. In this elegant, thoughtful and often touching portrait, Ken Burns explores the history and promise of this unique American institution. Using historical photographs and newsreels, evocative live footage and interviews with David Broder, Alistair Cooke, Cokie Roberts, Charles McDowell and others, the award-winning film chronicles the personalities, events and issues that have animated the first 200 years of Congress and, in turn, our country.

Cast

• Name: David McCullough

  Character: Self - Writer / Narrator

  Popularity: 1.4763

  

• Name: Cokie Roberts

  Character: Self - Journalist

  Popularity: 0.9967

  

• Name: Alistair Cooke

  Character: Self - Journalist

  Popularity: 0.6768

  

• Name: Arthur Miller

  Character: Self

  Popularity: 1.2363

  

• Name: Charles McDowell

  Character: Self - Newspaperman

  Popularity: 0.3837

  

• Name: Barbara Fields

  Character: Self - Historian

  Popularity: 0.394

  

• Name: John C. Stennis

  Character: Self - Former Senator

  Popularity: 0.311

  

• Name: David S. Broder

  Character: Self - Reporter

  Popularity: 0.4394