Full Cast & Crew

John Rhys-Davies as Self / Narrator

Elijah Wood as Self

Hugo Weaving as Self

Peter Jackson as Self

Ian McKellen as Self

Jock Ferguson as Self - William Wallace Re-enactor

Jock Ferguson as Self - Scottish Historian

Michael Drout as Self - Tolkien Expert

Susan Doran as Self - Oxford University

David Loades as Self - Author, 'Elizabeth I'

Theodore Roosevelt as Self (archive footage)

Tweed Roosevelt as Self - Theodore Roosevelt's Great-Grandson

Michael Zuckerman as Self - Benjamin Franklin Expert

Christopher Lee as Self

Czar Nicholas II of Russia as Self (archive footage)

Tsarina Alexandra as Self (archive footage)

Richard Pipes as Self - Russian Historian

Vladimir Lenin as Self (archive footage)

Lynette Nusbacher as Self - English Historian

David Wenham as Self

James M. McPherson as Self - Civil War Historian

Philippa Boyens as Self - Co-Screenwriter

Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage)

Bob Doe as Self - World War II RAF Pilot

Gary Moulton as Self - Lewis and Clark Expert

Billy Boyd as Self

Orlando Bloom as Self

Tenzing Norgay as Self (archive footage)

Edmund Hillary as Self (archive footage)

Broughton Coburn as Self - Everest Expert

Jamling Tenzing Norgay as Self - Son of Tenzing Norgay

Sean Astin as Self

Allen Counter as Self - Peary Expedition Historian

Robert Peary Stafford as Self - Robert A. Peary Great-grandson