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