All Cast
Carl Lumbly
Nat Turner - Gray
Justin Dray
Thomas Gray
Megan Gallagher
Margaret Whitehead
Charles Burnett
Lucinda
Ossie Davis
Himself
Frank Faucette
Jesse
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
Harry Kollatz Jr.
Benjamin Phipps
Alfre Woodard
Narrator
Herbert Aptheker
Self
William Styron
Self
Raymond H. Johnson
Virginia Militiaman reenactment
Alvin F. Poussaint
Self
Shaun DePriest
Moses
Kimberly Grey
Sally Travers
Martha Minnow
Self