The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen is a six-hour, four-part miniseries docudrama which premiered on March 7, 2018 on the History Channel. It is a complement to the 2012 docudrama The Men Who Built America. The series follows the lives of Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, Andrew Jackson, and others who blazed new trails across America's wilderness. The series is narrated by Campbell Scott, directed by John Ealer and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Cast
Main
Jonathan C. Stewart as Daniel Boone
Gareth Reeves as Davy Crockett
Derek Charition as Meriwether Lewis
Joseph Carlson as William Clark
Robert I. Mesa as Tecumseh
Nathan Stevens as Kit Carson
Adam Jonas Segaller as John C. Frémont
David Stevens as Andrew Jackson
Guest
Madeleine Adams as Jemima Boone
Mo Brings Plenty as Blackfish
Phil Peleton as Judge John Henderson
Simba Matshe as Pompey
Andrew Robert as William Henry Harrison
William Strongheart as Tenskwatawa "The Prophet" Melissa Kramer as Sacagawea Adam Gardiner as Thomas Jefferson John Bach as James Madison Cohen Holloway as General John Coffee John Wraight as William Fitzgerald Barry Mawer as General Henry Proctor Matt Cleaver as Sam Houston Paul Yates as John Alexander Forbes Arlo MacDiramid as James K. Polk Jed Brophy as Stephen Kearny
Episodes
Note: The series consists of eight one-hour episodes; for TV they were combined into four two-hour episodes.