American: An Odyssey to 1947

In the early 1930s, Orson Welles ascends to unprecedented stardom while President Franklin Delano Roosevelt navigates a nation in crisis. As WWII begins, an American boy visits abroad, and an American soldier enlists in the army.

Cast

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  Orson Welles

  Self (archive footage)

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  Simon Callow

  Self

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  Richard France

  Self

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  John Houseman

  Self (archive footage)