A history to be reckoned with.

Overview

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.

  1. Ken Burns

    Creator

  2. Sarah Botstein

    Creator

  3. Lynn Novick

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Peter Coyote

    Self - Narrator

  2. Daniel Mendelsohn

    Self - Writer

  3. Peter Hayes

    Self - Historian

  4. Deborah Lipstadt

    Self - Historian

  5. Cast 1

    Meryl Streep

    Eleanor Roosevelt

  6. Daniel Greene

    Self - Historian

  7. Guy Stern

    Self - Hildesheim, U.S. Army

  8. Rebecca Erbelding

    Self - Historian

  9. Cast 1

    Werner Herzog

    Hermann Göring

Last Season

Poster

Season 1

2022 | 3 episodes

season 1 of The U.S. and the Holocaust premiered on Sep 18, 2022.

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Facts

Status Ended

Network Network

TypeMiniseries

Original LanguageEnglish 

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