09 Jun 2025
The American Miracle
Journeys through some of the most significant events in America's rise to power, reliving the improbabilities that demonstrate what the Founders always believed: that events unfolded according to a master plan.
Land of Liberty
STARS! THRILLS! SPECTACLE!
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
Top Billed Cast
Gayne Whitman Narrator
Erville Alderson Thomas Jefferson (edited from 'Romance of Louisiana')
Don Ameche Alexander Graham Bell (archive footage)
Heather Angel Virginia Randolph (edited from 'Daniel Boone')
George Arliss Alexander Hamilton (edited from 'Alexander Hamilton')
Edward Arnold Diamond Jim Brady (edited from 'Diamond Jim')
Felix Aylmer Lord Palmerston (edited from 'Victoria the Great')
George Bancroft (archive footage)
Binnie Barnes (archive footage)
John Barrymore (archive footage)
Lionel Barrymore (archive footage)
Warner Baxter (archive footage)
Janet Beecher (archive footage)
Noah Beery (archive footage)
Wallace Beery (archive footage)
Sidney Blackmer Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
Eleanor Boardman (archive footage)
Beulah Bondi Mary Wilkins (edited from 'Of Human Hearts')
William Boyd (archive footage)
Walter Brennan Ezra Peavey (edited from 'The Buccaneer')
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