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