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

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2017
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1980
The Daily Show
2002
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
The View
2002
The Colbert Report
2011
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
2007
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1996
Late Night with David Letterman
1990
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2008
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2007
Meet the Press
2021

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
110
Writing
1
2025
The Gettysburg Address
as Self
2024
Biden's Decision
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The White House Effect
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Bill Russell: Legend
as Self - Author, Journalist & Longtime Admirer of Bill
2023
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
as Self (archive footage)
2022
They Volunteered for This: Merrill's Marauders
as Narrator
2022
Untold: Caitlyn Jenner
as Self - NBC News Anchor (archive footage)
2022
Endangered
2022
Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Explained
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Fiasco
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Meet the Press
as Self
2020
Katarina Witt - Weltstar aus der DDR
as Self
2020
Challenger: The Final Flight
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Mike Wallace Is Here
as (archive footage)
2019
We Are Columbine
as Self
2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
2019
Cola Wars
as Self (archive footage)
2018
RBG
as Self (archive footage)
2018
America's Library
as Self
2018
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
as Self
2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self
2018
1968
as Self
2018
The Front Runner
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
The Mayo Clinic
as Self
2018
The 2000s
2017
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
as Self
2017
Reflections on the Vietnam War
as Host
2017
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
as Self
2017
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
as Self
2017
Hamilton: Building America
2017
LA 92
as Self (archive footage)
2017
The Nineties
as Self (archive footage)
2017
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2017
Road to 9/11
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Crashing the Party
as Self
2016
60 Minutes
as Self
2016
Jackie Robinson
as Self
2016
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
2015
The Making of Trump
as Self (archive footage)
2015
41 on 41
as Self
2014
Iverson
2014
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
as Self
2014
D-Day: Normandy 1944
as Narrator (voice)
2014
The Colbert Report
as Self (uncredited)
2013
All the President's Men Revisited
as Self (uncredited)
2013
Home for the Holidays: Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square
as Self
2013
The Passions & Politics of Ed Edelman: An Untold Story of Leadership
as Narrator
2012
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2011
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird
as Self
2011
iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World
as Self
2011
9/11: In Our Own Words
as Himself
2011
Vito
as Self (archive footage)
2011
The Colbert Report
2010
America: The Story of Us
as Himself
2010
Operation Yellow Ribbon
as Self
2010
America: The Story of Us
as Self
2010
Buccaneers & Bones
as Narrator
2010
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
2009
Our Time
2009
Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel
as Tom Brokaw
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2008
Run for Your Life
as Himself
2008
King
as Host
2008
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2007
1968 with Tom Brokaw
as Himself
2007
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
as Self
2007
Everything's Cool
as Self (archive footage)
2007
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self
2007
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2006
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
as Self - 1978 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire
as Narrator
2006
Deep Throat: The Full Story of Watergate
as Self
2006
NBC News Presents: Survivor: The Aron Ralston Story
as Himself
2006
Today
as Self
2005
Last Best Chance
as Self
2005
The Greatest Generation
2004
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Celsius 41.11
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Tanner on Tanner
as Self
2003
Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty
as Narrator (voice)
2002
The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing
as Self
2002
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
as Self
2002
Vertical Frontier
as Narrator
2002
Journeys with George
as Self (archive footage)
2002
The Daily Show
as Self
2002
The View
as Self
2001
Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack
as himself
2001
On Common Ground
as Self - Commentator
1999
When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World
as Self
1999
Late Show with David Letterman
as Self - Guest
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self (voice)
1996
Nichols and May: Take Two
as Self
1996
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1996
American Masters
as Self
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self
1995
Spin
as Self (archive footage)
1993
Barbarians at the Gate
as Self
1993
Late Show with David Letterman
as Self
1992
Commercial Entertainment Product
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Late Night with David Letterman
as Self - Guest
1989
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
1986
Rag Dolly in the U.S.S.R.
as Narrator
1986
Mount Rushmore: The Shrine
as Narrator (voice)
1980
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1970
NBC Nightly News
as Self
Off Your Duff
as Self