Tom Brokaw
Acting • Born 1940-02-06
Biography
Thomas John Brokaw is an American television journalist and author. He was the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for twenty two years (1982–2004). Brokaw is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. He now serves as a special correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets
Filmography
103 credits
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Movie • 1989
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Rag Dolly in the U.S.S.R.
Movie • 1986
Narrator
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
1968 with Tom Brokaw
Movie • 2007
Himself
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Movie • 2006
Self - 1978 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited)
Run for Your Life
Movie • 2008
Himself
All the President's Men Revisited
Movie • 2013
Self (uncredited)
Katarina Witt - Weltstar aus der DDR
Movie • 2020
Self
The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing
Movie • 2002
Self
Crashing the Party
Movie • 2016
Self
RBG
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
Movie • 2007
Self
Iverson
Movie • 2014
Last Best Chance
Movie • 2005
Self
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
Movie • 2014
Self
Mount Rushmore: The Shrine
Movie • 1986
Narrator (voice)
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
Movie • 2002
Self
America's Library
Movie • 2018
Self
They Volunteered for This: Merrill's Marauders
Movie • 2022
Narrator
D-Day: Normandy 1944
Movie • 2014
Narrator (voice)
Home for the Holidays: Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square
Movie • 2013
Self
Our Time
Movie • 2009
When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World
Movie • 1999
Self
Mike Wallace Is Here
Movie • 2019
(archive footage)
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird
Movie • 2011
Self
Untold: Caitlyn Jenner
Movie • 2021
Self - NBC News Anchor (archive footage)
Spin
Movie • 1995
Self (archive footage)
America: The Story of Us
Movie • 2010
Himself
Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire
Movie • 2006
Narrator
Endangered
Movie • 2022
Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack
Movie • 2001
himself
The Making of Trump
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Commercial Entertainment Product
Movie • 1992
Self (archive footage)
41 on 41
Movie • 2015
Self
Deep Throat: The Full Story of Watergate
Movie • 2006
Self
Biden's Decision
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World
Movie • 2011
Self
Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel
Movie • 2009
Tom Brokaw
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
Movie • 2017
Self
Reflections on the Vietnam War
Movie • 2017
Host
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
Movie • 2017
Self
Vertical Frontier
Movie • 2002
Narrator
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Movie • 2017
Self
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
Movie • 2018
Self
King
Movie • 2008
Host
Hamilton: Building America
Movie • 2017
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Movie • 2018
Self
We Are Columbine
Movie • 2019
Self
The Gettysburg Address
Movie • 2025
Self
Frank Capra's American Dream
Movie • 1997
Self (voice)
Journeys with George
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
LA 92
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
1968
Movie • 2018
Self
Everything's Cool
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Movie • 2019
Self
Cola Wars
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
The Front Runner
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Celsius 41.11
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Barbarians at the Gate
Movie • 1993
Self
Nichols and May: Take Two
Movie • 1996
Self
Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
NBC News Presents: Survivor: The Aron Ralston Story
Movie • 2006
Himself
The Mayo Clinic
Movie • 2018
Self
On Common Ground
Movie • 2001
Self - Commentator
Off Your Duff
Movie
Self
9/11: In Our Own Words
Movie • 2011
Himself
The White House Effect
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Today
TV • 1952
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
60 Minutes
TV • 1968
Self
American Masters
TV • 1986
Self
Bill Russell: Legend
TV • 2023
Self - Author, Journalist & Longtime Admirer of Bill
Explained
TV • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
TV • 2023
Self (archive footage)
The Nineties
TV • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Jackie Robinson
TV • 2016
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV • 1996
Self
America: The Story of Us
TV • 2010
Self
Buccaneers & Bones
TV • 2010
Narrator
Entertainment Tonight
TV • 1981
Self
Fiasco
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure
TV • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2009
Self
Challenger: The Final Flight
TV • 2020
Self (archive footage)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
NBC Nightly News
TV • 1970
Self
The 2000s
TV • 2018
Late Show with David Letterman
TV • 1993
Self
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
Self (uncredited)
The Greatest Generation
TV • 2005
Late Show with David Letterman
TV • 1993
Self - Guest