Breakdown: 1975
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.
Director Morgan Neville
Trailer
Cast
Sidney Lumet
Self - Director of Dog day afternoon (archive footage)
Charles Bronson
Self - Actor in Death Wish (archive footage)
Kurt Andersen
Self
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Self
Mario Van Peebles
Self - Director, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (archive footage)
Richard Roundtree
Self (Shaft- archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive photo)
Albert Brooks
Self
Oliver Stone
Self
Wesley Morris
Self
Patton Oswalt
Self
Todd Boyd
Self
Richard Nixon
Self - 37th President of the United States (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Josh Brolin
Self
Bob Hope
Self - Co-Host, 47th Academy Awards (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Geraldo Rivera
Self - Host, Good Night America (archive footage)
Louise Fletcher
Self (archive footage- One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest Nurse Ratched)
David Brinkley
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
Bill Gates
Self
Seth Rogen
Self
Roman Polanski
Self - Director of Chinatown (archive footage)
John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
Burt Reynolds
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Carson
Self - Host, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Gerald Ford
Self - 38th President of the United States (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
David Byrne
Self (archive footage)
Rick Perlstein
Self
Jack Nicholson
Self (The Passenger-archive footage)
Richard Pryor
Self (archive footage), Self (archive photo/footage)
Gene Hackman
Self (The Conversation/The Poseidon Adventure- archive footage)
Betty Ford
Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman
Self (The Towering Inferno-archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive photo)
Frank Church
Self - Chairman, Senate Select Committee (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Howard K. Smith
Self - Host, ABC Evening News (archive footage)
Faye Dunaway
Self (Network- archive footage)
Frank Sinatra
Self (archive footage)
Jodie Foster
Narrator (voice)
Martin Scorsese
Self
Dan Rather
Self - Host, CBS Evening News (archive footage)
Sylvester Stallone
Self/Rocky/Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Steven Spielberg
Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage)
Pam Grier
Self (archive footage)
Peter Finch
Self (archive footage- Howard Beale Network)
Bert Schneider
Self - Producer, Hearts and Minds (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Frank Rich
Self
John Chancellor
Self - Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
Peter Bart
Self
Lynette Fromme
Self - Attempted Assassin of President Gerald Ford (archive footage)
Donald Pleasence
Self (archive footage- Escape to Witch Mountain)
Chevy Chase
Self (Saturday Night Live- archive footage)
Robert Altman
Self - Director, M*A*S*H & Nashville (archive footage)
Joan Tewkesbury
Self
Ronald Reagan
Self - Former Governor of California (archive footage)
Al Pacino
Sonny Wortzik (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Nancy Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Irwin Winkler
Self (archive footage)
Ellen Burstyn
Self
Sam Wasson
Self
Robert De Niro
Travis Bickle (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage/photo)
Ted Kennedy
Self - Pro-Busing Senator (archive footage), Self (archive footage)