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