The story
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.'
Watch trailerCast & crew
Bryan CranstonLyndon B. Johnson
Anthony MackieMartin Luther King, Jr.
Melissa LeoLady Bird Johnson
Frank LangellaSen. Richard Russell
Bradley WhitfordHubert Humphrey
Stephen RootJ. Edgar Hoover
Todd WeeksWalter Jenkins
Ray WiseSenator Everett Dirksen
Ken JenkinsHoward W. Smith
Dohn NorwoodRalph Abernathy
Mo McRaeStokely Carmichael
Marque RichardsonBob MosesExplore the crew
- Director
- Jay Roach
- Producer
- Jeffrey Richards
- Producer
- Scott Ferguson
- Editor
- Carol Littleton
- Director of Photography
- Jim Denault
- Screenplay
- Robert Schenkkan
- Original Music Composer
- James Newton Howard