Tom Brokaw
Biography
Tom Brokaw is an American television journalist and author. He was the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982–2004). He is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. He now serves as a special correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets
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Acting History
2025
The Gettysburg Address as Self
2024Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty as Self (archive footage)
2024The White House Effect as Self (archive footage)
2024Biden's Decision as Self (archive footage)
2023And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine as Self (archive footage)
2023Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields as Self (archive footage)
2023Bill Russell: Legend as Self - Author, Journalist & Longtime Admirer of Bill
2022Endangered
2022They Volunteered for This: Merrill's Marauders as Narrator
2022Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure as Self (archive footage)
2021Fiasco as Self (archive footage)
2021Untold: Caitlyn Jenner as Self - NBC News Anchor (archive footage)
2021Black Art: In the Absence of Light as Self (archive footage)
2020Katarina Witt - Weltstar aus der DDR as Self
2020Challenger: The Final Flight as Self (archive footage)
2019Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
2019Cola Wars as Self (archive footage)
2019Mike Wallace Is Here as (archive footage)
2019We Are Columbine as Self
2018America's Library as Self
2018Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists as Self
2018The Front Runner as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018The Mayo Clinic as Self
2018Explained as Self (archive footage)
2018RBG as Self (archive footage)
2018Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media as Self
20181968 as Self
2017The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee as Self
2017Reflections on the Vietnam War as Host
2017Hamilton: Building America
2017Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold as Self
2017The Nineties as Self (archive footage)
2017Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired as Self
2017LA 92 as Self (archive footage)
2016Crashing the Party as Self
2016Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words as Self (archive footage)
2016Jackie Robinson as Self
2015The Making of Trump as Self (archive footage)
201541 on 41 as Self
2014All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State as Self
2014Iverson
2014D-Day: Normandy 1944 as Narrator (voice)
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2013Home for the Holidays: Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square as Self
2013All the President's Men Revisited as Self (uncredited)
2011iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World as Self
20119/11: In Our Own Words as Himself
2011Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird as Self
2010Buccaneers & Bones as Narrator
2010America: The Story of Us as Himself
2010America: The Story of Us as Self
2009Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel as Tom Brokaw
2009Our Time
2009Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self
2008Run for Your Life as Himself
2008King as Host
20071968 with Tom Brokaw as Himself
2007Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed as Self
2007Everything's Cool as Self (archive footage)
2006Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire as Narrator
2006Deep Throat: The Full Story of Watergate as Self
2006This Film Is Not Yet Rated as Self - 1978 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006NBC News Presents: Survivor: The Aron Ralston Story as Himself
2005The Colbert Report
2005Last Best Chance as Self
2004Celsius 41.11 as Self (archive footage)
2004Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism as Self (archive footage)
2003Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty as Narrator (voice)
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2002Vertical Frontier as Narrator
2002NBC 75th Anniversary Special as Self
2002Journeys with George as Self (archive footage)
2002The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing as Self
2001Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack as himself
2001On Common Ground as Self - Commentator
1999When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World as Self
1997The View as Self
1997Frank Capra's American Dream as Self (voice)
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self
1996Nichols and May: Take Two as Self
1995Spin as Self (archive footage)
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993Barbarians at the Gate as Self
1992Commercial Entertainment Product as Self (archive footage)
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1989Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self
1986Mount Rushmore: The Shrine as Narrator (voice)
1986American Masters as Self
1986Rag Dolly in the U.S.S.R. as Narrator
1981Entertainment Tonight as Self
196860 Minutes as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1952Today as Self
—Off Your Duff as Self