John Rhys-Davies
Role: Self / Narrator
Jock Ferguson
Role: Self - William Wallace Re-enactor
Jock Ferguson
Role: Self - Scottish Historian
Michael Drout
Role: Self - Tolkien Expert
Susan Doran
Role: Self - Oxford University
David Loades
Role: Self - Author, 'Elizabeth I'
Theodore Roosevelt
Role: Self (archive footage)
Tweed Roosevelt
Role: Self - Theodore Roosevelt's Great-Grandson
Michael Zuckerman
Role: Self - Benjamin Franklin Expert
Christopher Lee
Role: Self
Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Role: Self (archive footage)
Tsarina Alexandra
Role: Self (archive footage)
Richard Pipes
Role: Self - Russian Historian
Vladimir Lenin
Role: Self (archive footage)
Lynette Nusbacher
Role: Self - English Historian
James M. McPherson
Role: Self - Civil War Historian
Philippa Boyens
Role: Self - Co-Screenwriter
Adolf Hitler
Role: Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Role: Self (archive footage)
Bob Doe
Role: Self - World War II RAF Pilot
Gary Moulton
Role: Self - Lewis and Clark Expert
Tenzing Norgay
Role: Self (archive footage)
Edmund Hillary
Role: Self (archive footage)
Broughton Coburn
Role: Self - Everest Expert
Jamling Tenzing Norgay
Role: Self - Son of Tenzing Norgay
Allen Counter
Role: Self - Peary Expedition Historian
Robert Peary Stafford
Role: Self - Robert A. Peary Great-grandson
