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