Top Billed Cast

1. 

   John Rhys-Davies

   Self / Narrator

2. 

   Elijah Wood

   Self

3. 

   Hugo Weaving

   Self

4. 

   Peter Jackson

   Self

5. 

   Ian McKellen

   Self

6. 

   Jock Ferguson

   Self - William Wallace Re-enactor

7. 

   Jock Ferguson

   Self - Scottish Historian

8. 

   Michael Drout

   Self - Tolkien Expert

9. 

   Susan Doran

   Self - Oxford University

10. 

    David Loades

    Self - Author, 'Elizabeth I'

11. 

    Theodore Roosevelt

    Self (archive footage)

12. 

    Tweed Roosevelt

    Self - Theodore Roosevelt's Great-Grandson

13. 

    Michael Zuckerman

    Self - Benjamin Franklin Expert

14. 

    Christopher Lee

    Self

15. 

    Czar Nicholas II of Russia

    Self (archive footage)

16. 

    Tsarina Alexandra

    Self (archive footage)

17. 

    Richard Pipes

    Self - Russian Historian

18. 

    Vladimir Lenin

    Self (archive footage)

19. 

    Lynette Nusbacher

    Self - English Historian

20. 

    David Wenham

    Self

21. 

    James M. McPherson

    Self - Civil War Historian

22. 

    Philippa Boyens

    Self - Co-Screenwriter

23. 

    Adolf Hitler

    Self (archive footage)

24. 

    Winston Churchill

    Self (archive footage)

25. 

    Bob Doe

    Self - World War II RAF Pilot

26. 

    Gary Moulton

    Self - Lewis and Clark Expert

27. 

    Billy Boyd

    Self

28. 

    Orlando Bloom

    Self

29. 

    Tenzing Norgay

    Self (archive footage)

30. 

    Edmund Hillary

    Self (archive footage)

31. 

    Broughton Coburn

    Self - Everest Expert

32. 

    Jamling Tenzing Norgay

    Self - Son of Tenzing Norgay

33. 

    Sean Astin

    Self

34. 

    Allen Counter

    Self - Peary Expedition Historian

35. 

    Robert Peary Stafford

    Self - Robert A. Peary Great-grandson