Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery is a 1997 documentary film directed by Ken Burns. Its subject is the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Actors and historians

Several noted actors read lines of various historical figures and a series of American university professors of history gave background information. They included:

Hal Holbrook - Narrator
Sam Waterston - Thomas Jefferson (Waterson also played Jefferson in Burns' Thomas Jefferson film)
Adam Arkin - Meriwether Lewis
Murphy Guyer - William Clark
Matthew Broderick - John Ordway
Kevin Conway - Patrick Gass
Gene Jones - Joseph Whitehouse
Tantoo Cardinal - Indian Woman Voice

As themselves: Dayton Duncan.

Films of Ken Burns

1980s	Brooklyn Bridge (1981) Remembering Chicago and World War II (1982) The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984) The Statue of Liberty (1985) Huey Long (1985) The Congress (1988) Thomas Hart Benton (1988)

1990s	The Civil War (1990) Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991) Baseball (1994) The West (1996) Thomas Jefferson (1997) Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997) Frank Lloyd Wright (1998) Not For Ourselves Alone: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1999)

2000s	Jazz (2001) Mark Twain (2001) Horatio's Drive (2003) Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) The War (2007) The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)

2010s	Prohibition (2011) The Dust Bowl (2012)

See also	Ken Burns effect

External links

[1] IMDb page
[2] PBS page on the documentary