Plot
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'
Cast
Bryan Cranston
Lyndon B. Johnson
Anthony Mackie
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Melissa Leo
Lady Bird Johnson
Frank Langella
Sen. Richard Russell
Bradley Whitford
Hubert Humphrey
Stephen Root
J. Edgar Hoover
Todd Weeks
Walter Jenkins
Ray Wise
Senator Everett Dirksen
Ken Jenkins
Howard W. Smith
Dohn Norwood
Ralph Abernathy
Mo McRae
Stokely Carmichael
Marque Richardson
Bob Moses
Crew
Jay Roach
Director
Jeffrey Richards
Producer
Scott Ferguson
Producer
James Newton Howard
Original Music Composer
Robert Schenkkan
Screenplay
Jim Denault
Director of Photography
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