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- The Words That Built America → Self - Narrator (voice)
- California Typewriter → Self
- Burden of Genius → Self – Author, Historian
- The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (TV) → Self - Historian
- The Most Wonderful Time of the Year Featuring Natalie Cole → Self
- David McCullough: Painting with Words → Self
- The Colbert Report (TV)
- Seabiscuit → Narrator
- 'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend → Self
- Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend → Self
- Seabiscuit: Racing Through History → Self
- Napoleon (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Napoleon → Narrator
- New York: A Documentary Film (TV) → Self - Commentator
- Truman → Self
- New York Underground → Self - Host
- The Daily Show (TV) → Self
- The Battle Over Citizen Kane → Self - Host of The American Experience
- The Wright Stuff → Self - Host
- Chicago 1968 → Self - Host
- FDR → Narrator
- Midnight Ramble → Introduction
- D-Day Remembered → Self - Narrator
- Ike → Narrator (voice)
- The Hurricane of '38 → Narrator (voice)
- The Donner Party → Narrator (voice)
- George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King → Host
- LBJ → Narrator
- The Civil War (TV) → Narrator
- The Congress → Self - Writer / Narrator
- The World That Moses Built → Narrator
- American Experience (TV) → Narrator (voice)
- American Experience (TV) → Self - Host
- The Wyeths: A Father and His Family → Self
- The Statue of Liberty → Self - Historian / Narrator
- Huey Long → Narrator (voice)
- The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God → Narrator (voice)
- Smithsonian World (TV) → Self - Host
- Brooklyn Bridge → Self - Narrator (voice)
- 60 Minutes (TV) → Self