
The U.S. and the Holocaust
TV-142022–2022·Ended·1 Seasons·3 Episodes·132 min·PBS·20:00
Studio: Florentine Films
TMDb8.3
🇺🇸USA
USA
English · USA
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.
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Cast

Peter Coyote
Self - Narrator
Daniel Mendelsohn
Self - Writer
Peter Hayes
Self - Historian
Deborah Lipstadt
Self - Historian

Meryl Streep
Eleanor Roosevelt
Daniel Greene
Self - Historian
Guy Stern
Self - Hildesheim, U.S. Army
Rebecca Erbelding
Self - Historian

Werner Herzog
Hermann Göring

Paul Giamatti
Madison Grant

Liam Neeson
(voice)

Adam Arkin
(voice)

Joe Morton
(voice)

Elliott Gould
(voice)

Matthew Rhys
(voice)

Bradley Whitford
(voice)
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Keywords
holocaust (shoah)jewish historyamerican history
Seasons
Specials2 episodes2022
Added: 5/14/2026Updated: 6/4/2026