Filmography
Peter Coyote
The Simpsons
1989 · Peter Coyote (voice)
NCIS
2003 · Ned Quinn
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Lionel Shill
Blue Bloods
2010 · Senator Ted McCreary
Nature
1982 · Narrator (voice)
American Experience
1988 · Narrator (voice)
Brothers and Sisters
2006 · Mark August
Independent Lens
1999 · Actor
American Playhouse
1982 · Young David
The Twilight Zone
1985 · (segment "Shadow Play")
The Division
2001 · Ross
Deadwood
2004 · General George Crook
Perception
2012 · James Alan Pierce
The 4400
2004 · Dennis Ryland
The Hitchhiker
1983 · Alex Nolan
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Cybill
1995 · Roger
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982 · Keys
Law & Order: LA
2010 · Jerry Hardin
FlashForward
2009 · Dave Segovia
Fallen Angels
1993 · Herman Charn
Commander in Chief
2005 · Warren Keaton
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005 · Mike LaSalle
National Geographic Explorer
1985 · Actor, Self - Narrator
Erin Brockovich
2000 · Kurt Potter
A Walk to Remember
2002 · Reverend Sullivan
Intelligence
2014 · Leland Strand
The Vietnam War
2017 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The American Revolution
2025 · Narrator (voice)
The Inside
2005 · Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
Patch Adams
1998 · Bill Davis
Bitter Moon
1992 · Oscar
The Spoils Before Dying
2015 · Dizzy the Cat
Sphere
1998 · Captain Harold C. Barnes
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014 · Himself
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009 · Narrator
Femme Fatale
2002 · Watts
The Disappearance
2017 · Henry Sullivan
Country Music
2019 · Narrator
The West
1996 · Self - Narrator
Prohibition
2011 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Comey Rule
2020 · Robert Mueller
Random Hearts
1999 · Cullen Chandler
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
2020 · Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014 · Narrator (voice)
The American Buffalo
2023 · Narrator (voice)
Great Migrations
2010 · Actor
Echoes in the Darkness
1987 · William Bradfield Jr.
Hemingway
2021 · Narrator (voice)
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
2021 · Sam Donovan
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Jagged Edge
1985 · Thomas Krasny
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
2006 · President Adair T. Manning
The Legend of Billie Jean
1985 · Ringwald
Benjamin Franklin
2022 · Narrator (voice)
The Color of War
2001 · Narrator
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012 · Maxwell Perkins
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
2008 · President Sterling
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
2005 · Uncle Charles
Kika
1993 · Nicholas Pierce
Outrageous Fortune
1987 · Michael Sanders
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980 · Courtney Taylor
Founding Fathers
2000 · John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
2005 · Uncle Charles
The Dust Bowl
2012 · Peter Coyote
The History of Sex
1999 · Himself - Narrator
Southern Comfort
1981 · Poole
Dangerous Waters
2012 · Self
Spielberg
2017 · Self
Unforgettable
1996 · Don Bresler
Top of the World
1997 · Doc 'The Butcher'
Seduced by Madness
1996 · Ruben Borchardt
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
2009 · Himself - Narrator
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
1982 · Porter Reese
Resurrecting the Champ
2007 · Ike Epstein
1 Mile To You
2017 · Principal Umber
La Californie !
2023 · Self - Actor / Activist
Good Kill
2015 · Langley
Rome: Power & Glory
1998 · Narrator
Kennedy
2023 · Narrator (voice)
Cross Creek
1983 · Norton Baskin
Guns Germs & Steel
2005 · Narrator (voice)
The Pacific Century
1992 · Narrator (voice)
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
2011 · Self
A Little Trip to Heaven
2005 · Frank
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
2023 · Self - Narrator (voice)
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
1996 · Self - Narrator (voice)
DiDi Hollywood
2010 · Michael McLean
Shadow of Fear
2004 · Congressman Henderson
The Hebrew Hammer
2003 · JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
Jack the Dog
2001 · Alfred
All Roads Lead Home
2008 · Hock
Founding Brothers
2002 · Actor
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
2014 · Burt Lowell
Slayground
1984 · Stone
The Mayo Clinic
2018 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Girl on the Edge
2015 · Hank Taylor
Bon Voyage
2003 · Alex Winckler
Northfork
2003 · Eddie
Moment of Contact
2022 · Narrator (voice)
Moonlight and Valentino
1995 · Paul
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980 · Courtney Taylor
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Narrator
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996 · Self
High Art
1991 · Peter Mandrake
The Etruscan Smile
2018 · Professor
Heart of Midnight
1988 · Sharpe/Larry
Eva & Leon
2015 · Le Père
A Man in Love
1987 · Steve Elliott
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
2010 · Narration
The Blue Yonder
1985 · Max Knickerbocker
The Phenomenon
2020 · Narrator (voice)
Sworn to Silence
1987 · Sam Fischetti
Dalva
1996 · Michael
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
2022 · Self
The Price of Fame
2015 · Crooker
Here
2011 · Storyteller
Unconquered
1989 · Richmond Flowers Sr.
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · Reader (voice)
People vs. Jean Harris
1981 · George Bolen
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
2015 · Self
Crooked Hearts
1991 · Edward Warren
Route 9
1998 · Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
No Deposit
2015 · Police Chief Williams
Lightworkers
2026 · Self-Interviewee
The Gospel of Judas
2006 · Actor, Narrator
Adopt a Sailor
2008 · Richard
$5 a Day
2008 · Burt Kruger
Endangered Species
1982 · Steele
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
2025 · Narrator (voice)
The Secrets of 007
1997 · Narrator (voice)
Die Laughing
1980 · Davis
Buffalo Girls
1995 · Buffalo Bill Cody
Murder in My Mind
1997 · Arthur Lefcourt
More Dogs Than Bones
2000 · Detective Darren Cody
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2017 · Actor
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
2003 · Narrator (voice)
A Cloud Never Dies
2022 · Narrator (voice)
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
2019 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Reality of Truth
2016 · Self
Baja Oklahoma
1988 · Slick Henderson
Keeper of the City
1991 · Frank Nordhall
Deepwater
2005 · Herman Finch
Tell Me a Riddle
1980 · Young David
Echoes in the Darkness
1987 · William Bradfield Jr.
A Time for Dancing
2002 · Wyn Michaels
Terminal Justice
1996 · Deacon Vivyan
That Eye, the Sky
1995 · Henry Warburton
Breach of Conduct
1994 · Col. Andrew Case
This Is Not a Movie
2011 · Actor
These Amazing Shadows
2011 · Self
Hippies
2007 · Self
The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
2025 · Narrator
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
2025 · Self
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
2001 · Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
Murder on Shadow Mountain
1999 · Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
In the Light of Reverence
2001 · Narrator (voice)
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
2019 · narrator
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003 · Narrator
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013 · Self
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
2002 · Self
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
2008 · Elliot Arthur
Fog City Mavericks
2007 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
TBA · Narrator
The Gundown
2011 · Thomas Morgan
Road Ends
1997 · Gene Gere
Indiscreet
1998 · Detective Roos
A Coup in Camelot
2015 · Narrator (voice)
Red Letters
2000 · Dennis Burke
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
2009 · Narrator
The Brain Fitness Program
2008 · Actor
Rise Above the Mark
2012 · Narrator
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
1999 · Himself - Narrator
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
2006 · Narrator (voice)
The Tent Mender
2021 · as Narrator
Strangers Kiss
1983 · Stanley, the Director
Phenomenon II
2003 · John Ringold
Child's Cry
1986 · Matt Townsend
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
2002 · Narrator
Cornellskop: Freedom From Fear
2026 · Narrator
Out
1982 · Rex
Good Men
2024 · Self
Out of the Blue
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Written In Blood
2003 · John Traveller
Last Will
2011 · Judge Garner
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990 · Narrator (voice)
Darryl Henriques Is in Show Business
2006 · Self
Best Kept Secrets
1984 · Frank Mitchell
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
1998 · Narrator, English version (voice)
National Geographic: Surviving Everest
2003 · Narrator
The Wednesday Woman
2000 · Don Wigulow
Against All Enemies
2023 · Narrator
Wandering...But Not Lost
2021 · Narrator
A Daring Journey: From Immigration to Education
2015 · Narrator
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
2012 · Narrator
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
2011 · Narrator (voice)
Purpose
2002 · Bernard Elias
Americana
2016 · Ben
Avalanche: The White Death
1998 · Narrator
Strange Culture
2007 · Self
A Seduction in Travis County
1991 · Frank Maguire
Two for Texas
1998 · Jim Bowie
The Great Role
2004 · Rudolph Grichenberg
Midwives
2001 · Stephen Hastings
Last Call
1999 · Xuave
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988 · Narrator
Suddenly Naked
2001 · Lionel Heathcote
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
2018 · Narrator
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
2021 · Narrator
Poison in the Rockies
1990 · Narrator (voice)
Illicit: The Dark Trade
2008 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Heartbreakers
1984 · Blue
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
2009 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Bad Faith
2024 · Narrator (voice)
The Man Inside
1990 · Henry Tobel
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009 · Narrstor (voice)
Spirit of Golf
2023 · Self
Execution of Justice
1999 · Harvey Milk
Summer of Love
2018 · Himself
Breach of Contract
1982 · Actor
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer
2004 · Actor
Finding Anastasia
2008 · Narrator
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
1997 · Narrator
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
1998 · Narrator
Antonio's Road
2026 · Breaking News Reporter (voice)
What The Tourist Should See
2009 · Narrator (voice)
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
2022 · Narrator
The Last Stand
2022 · Narrator (voice)
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
1983 · Narrator (voice)
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
2002 · Narrator (voice)
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
2007 · Narrator
Polanski y los ojos del mal
2002 · Himself
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
2014 · Narrator
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
2019 · Self
I Know What I Saw
2009 · Narrator (voice)
The Basket
2000 · Martin Conlon
Isabel's Choice
1981 · Wynn Thomas
As If They Were Angels
2018 · Narrator
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
2017 · Himself - Narrator
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
2010 · Narrator
The Program
2024 · Narrator (voice)
Scorned and Swindled
1984 · Anthony Ristelli
A Single Woman
2008 · Maury Maverick
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
1985 · Narrator (voice)
Alaska Far Away
2008 · Narrator
The Ghost Army
2013 · Narrator (Voice)
Nepal Beyond
2021 · Narrator
Fields of Gold
2023 · Narrator
Missing in Tibet
1999 · Narrator
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
2020 · Narrator (voice)
Seeds of Doubt
1998 · Actor
Valparaiso
2012 · Edward G. Drexler
Saving Atlantis
2018 · Actor
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
2013 · Narrator
Bag It
2011 · Self
San Francisco Diggers
1998 · Actor
Roots of Roe
1993 · James Morris (voice)
National Geographic's Storm of the Century
1998 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Oil on Ice
2004 · Narrator
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
1985 · Narrator
The Sunday Man
2007 · The Voice
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
2021 · Narrator (voice)
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
2009 · Narrator
The Co-op Wars
2021 · Narrator (voice)
Commune
2005 · self, Black Bear resident
Grizzly Diaries
2003 · Narrator (voice)
AKA Tommy Chong
2006 · Himself
The Hippie Temptation
1967 · Digger
Green Fire
2011 · Aldo Leopold (voice)
The Sacramento River of Life
2005 · Narrator
Stacking
1987 · The Photographer
The Peyote Road
1994 · Narrator
Living a Lie
1991 · Matt
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
TBA · Actor
With One Voice
2009 · Narrator
Sunseed: The Journey
2020 · Narrator (voice)
I am Fishead
2011 · narrator
Angel Azul
2014 · Narrator
San Francisco Stories
2021 · Narrator/SInger
A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe
1998 · Narrator
Torturing Democracy
2009 · Narrator
The UFO Experience
1982 · Actor
Huxley on Huxley
2009 · Self
Soldiers Of Conscience
2007 · Self
Right to Play
2012 · Narrator
Texas Gold
2008 · Narrator
Emperor of Hemp
1999 · Narrator
Almost Thirteen
2020 · Narrator
Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision
2010 · Narrator
The Tribe
2005 · Voice
Black Mountain Blues
2025 · Actor
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.
2016 · Himself
The War Prayer
2005 · Narrator
The Atomic Tree
2019 · Narrator
Reconstructing T-Rex
2010 · Narrator
Hayden's Corner
TBA · Narrator (voice)
Climbing Redwood Giants
2009 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Speak Out
2007 · Actor
Kennesaw: One Last Mountain
2013 · Self (Narrator)
Oceans in Glass
2011 · Narrator
Huichols and Pesticides
TBA · Narrator (voice)
Search for the Submarine I-52
2000 · Narrator