Tom Brokaw: movies and TV shows
Tom Brokaw has 109 credits in the archive: 73 films and 36 TV series, from 1952 to 2025. Highest rated: Explained (7.5/10).
Career timeline
1952 – 2025 · busiest year: 2018 (9 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Gettysburg Address | Self | Film | — | 85 |
| 2024 | The White House Effect | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.1 | 84 |
| 2024 | Biden's Decision | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 84 |
| 2024 | Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty | Self (archive footage) | Film | 1.0 | 84 |
| 2023 | Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.4 | 83 |
| 2023 | Bill Russell: Legend | Self - Author, Journalist & Longtime Admirer of Bill | TV | 7.2 | 83 |
| 2022 | Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure | Self (archive footage) | TV | 8.3 | 82 |
| 2022 | Untold: Caitlyn Jenner | Self - NBC News Anchor (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 82 |
| 2022 | Endangered | Film | 6.3 | 82 | |
| 2022 | They Volunteered for This: Merrill's Marauders | Narrator | Film | — | 82 |
| 2021 | Fiasco | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 81 |
| 2021 | Black Art: In the Absence of Light | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.4 | 81 |
| 2020 | Challenger: The Final Flight | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.1 | 80 |
| 2020 | Katarina Witt - Weltstar aus der DDR | Self | Film | 7.5 | 80 |
| 2019 | Cola Wars | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 79 |
| 2019 | Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self | Film | 6.5 | 79 |
| 2019 | Mike Wallace Is Here | (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 79 |
| 2019 | We Are Columbine | Self | Film | 6.8 | 79 |
| 2018 | Explained | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.5 | 78 |
| 2018 | The 2000s | TV | 6.4 | 78 | |
| 2018 | The Front Runner | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 5.9 | 78 |
| 2018 | RBG | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 78 |
| 2018 | The Mayo Clinic | Self | Film | 7.0 | 78 |
| 2018 | 1968 | Self | Film | — | 78 |
| 2018 | Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists | Self | Film | 7.1 | 78 |
| 2018 | Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media | Self | Film | — | 78 |
| 2018 | America's Library | Self | Film | — | 78 |
| 2017 | The Nineties | Self (archive footage) | TV | 6.9 | 77 |
| 2017 | LA 92 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 77 |
| 2017 | Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | Self | Film | 7.3 | 77 |
| 2017 | The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee | Self | Film | 7.5 | 77 |
| 2017 | Hamilton: Building America | Film | 7.0 | 77 | |
| 2017 | Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired | Self | Film | 6.0 | 77 |
| 2017 | Reflections on the Vietnam War | Host | Film | 9.3 | 77 |
| 2016 | Jackie Robinson | Self | TV | 7.9 | 76 |
| 2016 | Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 76 |
| 2016 | Crashing the Party | Self | Film | — | 76 |
| 2015 | The Making of Trump | Self (archive footage) | Film | 4.4 | 75 |
| 2015 | 41 on 41 | Self | Film | 6.5 | 75 |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | TV | 5.8 | 74 |
| 2014 | D-Day: Normandy 1944 | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 74 |
| 2014 | All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State | Self | Film | 7.7 | 74 |
| 2014 | Iverson | Film | 7.0 | 74 | |
| 2013 | All the President's Men Revisited | Self (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 73 |
| 2013 | Home for the Holidays: Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square | Self | Film | — | 73 |
| 2013 | The Passions & Politics of Ed Edelman: An Untold Story of Leadership | Narrator | Film | — | 73 |
| 2011 | Vito | Self (archive) | Film | 6.9 | 71 |
| 2011 | iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World | Self | Film | 6.9 | 71 |
| 2011 | Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird | Self | Film | — | 71 |
| 2011 | 9/11: In Our Own Words | Himself | Film | — | 71 |
| 2010 | America: The Story of Us | Self | TV | 8.2 | 70 |
| 2010 | Buccaneers & Bones | Narrator | TV | 4.0 | 70 |
| 2010 | America: The Story of Us | Himself | Film | 6.4 | 70 |
| 2009 | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Self | TV | 6.0 | 69 |
| 2009 | The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | TV | 7.1 | 69 |
| 2009 | Our Time | Film | — | 69 | |
| 2009 | Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel | Tom Brokaw | Film | 7.0 | 69 |
| 2008 | Run for Your Life | Himself | Film | 7.9 | 68 |
| 2008 | King | Host | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 2007 | Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed | Self | Film | 7.2 | 67 |
| 2007 | Everything's Cool | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.1 | 67 |
| 2007 | 1968 with Tom Brokaw | Himself | Film | 4.5 | 67 |
| 2007 | 1968 with Tom Brokaw | Film | 4.5 | 67 | |
| 2006 | This Film Is Not Yet Rated | Self - 1978 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.1 | 66 |
| 2006 | NBC News Presents: Survivor: The Aron Ralston Story | Himself | Film | — | 66 |
| 2006 | Deep Throat: The Full Story of Watergate | Self | Film | — | 66 |
| 2006 | Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire | Narrator | Film | — | 66 |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report | TV | 6.9 | 65 | |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report | Self (uncredited) | TV | 6.9 | 65 |
| 2005 | Last Best Chance | Self | Film | 6.0 | 65 |
| 2005 | The Greatest Generation | TV | — | 65 | |
| 2005 | The Greatest Generation | TV | — | 65 | |
| 2004 | Tanner on Tanner | Self | TV | 10.0 | 64 |
| 2004 | Celsius 41.11 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.5 | 64 |
| 2004 | Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | TV | 5.5 | 63 |
| 2003 | Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 63 |
| 2002 | NBC 75th Anniversary Special | Self | Film | 6.0 | 62 |
| 2002 | Vertical Frontier | Narrator | Film | 9.0 | 62 |
| 2002 | Journeys with George | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.8 | 62 |
| 2002 | The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing | Self | Film | — | 62 |
| 2001 | On Common Ground | Self - Commentator | Film | — | 61 |
| 2001 | Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack | himself | Film | 6.8 | 61 |
| 1999 | When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World | Self | Film | 8.0 | 59 |
| 1997 | The View | Self | TV | 4.3 | 57 |
| 1997 | Frank Capra's American Dream | Self (voice) | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self | TV | 6.4 | 56 |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell Show | Self | TV | 4.1 | 56 |
| 1996 | Nichols and May: Take Two | Self | Film | 6.5 | 56 |
| 1995 | Spin | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1993 | Late Show with David Letterman | Self | TV | 6.4 | 53 |
| 1993 | Late Show with David Letterman | Self - Guest | TV | 6.4 | 53 |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | TV | 7.3 | 53 |
| 1993 | Barbarians at the Gate | Self | Film | 6.9 | 53 |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | TV | 5.4 | 52 | |
| 1992 | Commercial Entertainment Product | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.7 | 52 |
| 1989 | Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt | Self - News Reporter (archive footage) | Film | 6.9 | 49 |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self | TV | 5.6 | 48 |
| 1986 | American Masters | Self | TV | 7.0 | 46 |
| 1986 | Rag Dolly in the U.S.S.R. | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 46 |
| 1986 | Mount Rushmore: The Shrine | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 46 |
| 1982 | Late Night with David Letterman | Self - Guest | TV | 6.1 | 42 |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight | Self | TV | 4.3 | 41 |
| 1970 | NBC Nightly News | Self | TV | 6.4 | 30 |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes | Self | TV | 6.5 | 28 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV | 7.5 | 22 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.5 | 22 |
| 1952 | Today | Self | TV | 5.6 | 12 |
| Off Your Duff | Self | Film | — | — |