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