Miniseries · ARTE
America Who Are You? A History of the American Mindset
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Tom Vogt
Self - Narrator
2 eps
Heike Paul
Self - Interviewee
2 eps
Elisabeth Anker
Self - Interviewee
2 eps
Volker Depkat
Self - Interviewee
2 eps
Michael Hochgeschwender
Self - Interviewee
2 eps
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Self - Interviewee
2 eps
Jessica Gienow-Hecht
Self - Interviewee
2 eps
Melani McAlister
Self - Interviewee
2 eps
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Self - Interviewee
2 eps
Michaela Hampf
Self - Interviewee
2 eps
Jasper Trautsch
Self - Interviewee
2 eps
Max Paul Friedman
Self - Interviewee
2 eps
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Jimmy Carter
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Joe Biden
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
JD Vance
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Mike Pence
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Pete Hegseth
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Marco Rubio
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Elon Musk
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Bill Gates
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Jacques Chirac
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Jerry Falwell
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Oprah Winfrey
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Rosalynn Carter
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Nancy Reagan
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Melania Trump
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Usha Vance
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
John D. Rockefeller
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Andrew Carnegie
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
Henry Ford
Self (archive footage)
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How America Who Are You? A History of the American Mindset actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
America Who Are You? A History of the American Mindset reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
On July 4th, 2026, the United States will celebrate Independence Day, just as it does every year. But 250 years on from the country’s Declaration of Independence, the image of the United States has become tarnished. Yet today, the United States seems increasingly alien and ever more threatening to many Europeans. Is Donald Trump’s current policy the product of a national identity shaped by history? To understand the American mindset, one must look back to the roots and myths that have shaped it — a history marked by rifts and conflicts that continue to resonate today. By drawing parallels between cowboys and populism, Thanksgiving and Charlie Kirk, this 2-part documentary demonstrates that Trump’s politics differ from those of his predecessors and are not in line with the values upon which the history of the American nation was founded.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Axel BuitmannProducer
- Imke MeierProducer
Writing
- Winfried OelsnerWriter
Direction
- Winfried OelsnerDirector
Cinematography
- Alexander VexlerDirector of Photography
- Frederik WalkerDirector of Photography
Where to watch
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