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