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

• Bill Russell: Legend — Self - Author, Journalist & Longtime Admirer of Bill
• 2022Endangered
• 2022They Volunteered for This: Merrill's Marauders — Narrator
• 2019Mike Wallace Is Here — (archive footage)
• The 2000s
• 2017Hamilton: Building America
• 2017Reflections on the Vietnam War — Host
• 2014D-Day: Normandy 1944 — Narrator (voice)
• 2014Iverson
• 2013The Passions & Politics of Ed Edelman: An Untold Story of Leadership — Narrator
• Buccaneers & Bones — Narrator
• 2009Our Time
• 2009Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel — Tom Brokaw
• 2008King — Host
• 20071968 with Tom Brokaw — Himself, Writer
• 2006Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire — Narrator
• The Greatest Generation — Creator
• 2003Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty — Narrator (voice)
• 2002Vertical Frontier — Narrator
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1986Mount Rushmore: The Shrine — Narrator (voice)
• 1986Rag Dolly in the U.S.S.R. — Narrator

Appearances as themselves (86)

• 2025The Gettysburg Address — Self
• 2024Biden's Decision — Self (archive footage)
• 2024The White House Effect — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty — Self (archive footage)
• Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields — Self (archive footage)
• Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Untold: Caitlyn Jenner — Self - NBC News Anchor (archive footage)
• 2021Black Art: In the Absence of Light — Self (archive footage)
• Fiasco — Self (archive footage)
• Challenger: The Final Flight — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Katarina Witt - Weltstar aus der DDR — Self
• 2019Alan Pakula: Going for Truth — Self
• 2019Cola Wars — Self (archive footage)
• 2019We Are Columbine — Self
• 20181968 — Self
• 2018America's Library — Self
• 2018Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists — Self
• Explained — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media — Self
• 2018RBG — Self (archive footage)
• 2018The Front Runner — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2018The Mayo Clinic — Self
• 2017Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold — Self
• 2017LA 92 — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired — Self
• Road to 9/11 — Self (archive footage)
• 2017The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee — Self
• The Nineties — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Crashing the Party — Self
• 2016Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words — Self (archive footage)
• Jackie Robinson — Self
• 201541 on 41 — Self
• 2015The Making of Trump — Self (archive footage)
• 2014All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2013All the President's Men Revisited — Self (uncredited)
• 2013Home for the Holidays: Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square — Self
• 2012United in Anger: A History of ACT UP — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 20119/11: In Our Own Words — Himself
• 2011Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird — Self
• 2011Vito — Self (archive footage)
• 2011iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World — Self
• 2010America: The Story of Us — Himself
• America: The Story of Us — Self
• 2010Operation Yellow Ribbon — Self
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self
• The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• 2008Run for Your Life — Himself
• 2007Everything's Cool — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed — Self
• 2006Deep Throat: The Full Story of Watergate — Self
• 2006NBC News Presents: Survivor: The Aron Ralston Story — Himself
• 2006This Film Is Not Yet Rated — Self - 1978 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2005Last Best Chance — Self
• The Colbert Report — Self (uncredited)
• 2004Celsius 41.11 — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism — Self (archive footage)
• Tanner on Tanner — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2002Journeys with George — Self (archive footage)
• 2002NBC 75th Anniversary Special — Self
• 2002The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing — Self
• 2001On Common Ground — Self - Commentator
• 2001Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack — himself
• 1999When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World — Self
• 1997Frank Capra's American Dream — Self (voice)
• The View — Self
• 1996Nichols and May: Take Two — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self
• 1995Spin — Self (archive footage)
• 1993Barbarians at the Gate — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self, Self - Guest
• 1992Commercial Entertainment Product — Self (archive footage)
• 1989Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt — Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self
• American Masters — Self
• Late Night with David Letterman — Self - Guest
• Entertainment Tonight — Self
• NBC Nightly News — Self
• 60 Minutes — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Today — Self
• Meet the Press — Self
• Off Your Duff — Self