American Experience – S27 E05 : The Forgotten Plague

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By the dawn of the 19th century, the most deadly killer in human history, tuberculosis, had killed one in seven of all the people who had ever lived. Throughout the 1800s, the disease struck America with a vengeance, ravaging communities and touching the lives of almost every family. The battle against the deadly bacteria had a profound and lasting impact on America. It shaped medical and scientific pursuits, social habits, economic development, western expansion, and government policy. Yet both the disease and its impact are poorly understood; in the words of one writer, tuberculosis is our "forgotten plague."

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Tom Hanks
as Narrator (voice)
Morgan Freeman
as Narrator (voice)
Denzel Washington
as Self - Narrator
Ellen Burstyn
as Narrator (voice)
Jeffrey Wright
as Narrator (voice)
Benjamin Bratt
as Narrator (voice)
Susan Sarandon
as Narrator (voice)
Keith David
as W.E. Henderson / Other Voices
Stacy Keach
as Narrator (voice)
Kyle MacLachlan
as Narrator
Robert Duvall
as Narrator (voice)
Kenneth Branagh
as Narrator (voice)
Liev Schreiber
as Narrator (voice)
Chris Cooper
as Narrator (voice)
Laura Linney
as Narrator (voice)
Holly Hunter
as Mary Lincoln (voice)
Zahn McClarnon
as Wampanoag man
Richard Thomas
as Narrator (voice)
F. Murray Abraham
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Mary McDonnell
as Narrator (voice)
Donald Sutherland
as Narrator (voice)
Robert Redford
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Christopher Plummer
as Narrator
Randy Quaid
as Narrator (voice)
Michael Stuhlbarg
as Officer Stephen Colden
Keith Carradine
as Narrator (voice)
Bill Paxton
as Self - Reader (voice)
Mandy Patinkin
as Narrator (voice)
Oliver Platt
as Narrator (voice)
Bridget Regan
as Angelica Shippen
Scott Glenn
as Narrator (voice)
David Morse
as Abraham Lincoln
Glenn Close
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Matthew Broderick
as Jack Binns (voice)
Héctor Elizondo
as Narrator (voice)
Kathy Bates
as Narrator (voice)
Peter Krause
as Narrator
Joe Mantegna
as Narrator (voice)
Brian Dennehy
as Aaron Burr (voice)
Vanessa Williams
as Narrator (voice)
Roy Scheider
as Narrator (voice)
Andre Braugher
as Narrator
Alex Meraz
as Warrior
Marion Ross
as Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)
Linda Hunt
as Narrator (voice)
Campbell Scott
as Narrator (voice)
Wes Studi
as Warrior in Canoe

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