
The miniseries follows the history of its namesake, from the 1950s when Wallace was a circuit court judge in Barbour County, to his tenure as the most powerful governor in Alabama's history. It depicts his symbolic "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", where Wallace attempted to block black students from entering the University of Alabama. It details his stance on racial segregation in Alabama at the time, which proved popular with his white constituents, and also depicts Wallace's rise as a presidential hopeful. This eventually leads to his attempted assassination—and his surprise victory in several states during the 1968 presidential election.

as George C. Wallace

as Lurleen Wallace

as Big Jim Folsom

as Cornelia Wallace

as Billy Watson

as T.Y. Odum

as Ricky Brickle

as Gerald Wallace

as Al Lingo

as Nicholas Katzenbach

as Bobby Kennedy

as Archie