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. This VHS was on December 9, 1997.

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, Stephen Ambrose.

Films of Ken Burns

Films	Brooklyn Bridge (1981) The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984) The Statue of Liberty (1985) Huey Long (1985) The Congress (1988) 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) Not for Ourselves Alone (1999) 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) Prohibition (2011) The Dust Bowl (2012) The Central Park Five (2012) The Roosevelts (2014) Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015)

See also	Ken Burns effect

External links

IMDb page
PBS page on the documentary