Jodie Foster

Character: Narrator (voice)

Albert Brooks

Character: Self

Ellen Burstyn

Character: Self

Frank Rich

Character: Self

Martin Scorsese

Character: Self

Josh Brolin

Character: Self

Oliver Stone

Character: Self

James Risen

Character: Self

James Wolcott

Character: Self

Jefferson Cowie

Character: Self

Bill Gates

Character: Self

Joan Tewkesbury

Character: Self

Kurt Andersen

Character: Self

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Character: Self

Seth Rogen

Character: Self

Wesley Morris

Character: Self

Naomi Fry

Character: Self

Patton Oswalt

Character: Self

Peter Bart

Character: Self

Peter Biskind

Character: Self

Rick Perlstein

Character: Self

Sam Wasson

Character: Self

Todd Boyd

Character: Self

Robert Altman

Character: Self - Director, M*A*S*H & Nashville (archive footage)

David Brinkley

Character: Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)

Johnny Carson

Character: Self - Host, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (archive footage)

Kathy Carter

Character: Self - Anti-Busing Activist (archive footage)

John Chancellor

Character: Self - Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)

Frank Church

Character: Self - Chairman, Senate Select Committee (archive footage)

Sue Connor

Character: Self - Anti-Busing Activist (archive footage)

Rennie Davis

Character: Self - Anti-War Activist & Venture Capitalist (archive footage)

Werner Erhard

Character: Self - Founder, EST (archive footage)

Gerald Ford

Character: Self - 38th President of the United States (archive footage)

Lynette Fromme

Character: Self - Attempted Assassin of President Gerald Ford (archive footage)

Bob Hope

Character: Self - Co-Host, 47th Academy Awards (archive footage)

Ken Kashiwahara

Character: Self - ABC News Reporter (archive footage

Ted Kennedy

Character: Self - Pro-Busing Senator (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Character: Self - 37th President of the United States (archive footage)

Dan Rather

Character: Self - Host, CBS Evening News (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Character: Self - Former Governor of California (archive footage)

Geraldo Rivera

Character: Self - Host, Good Night America (archive footage)

Felix Rohatyn

Character: Self - Chairman, Municipal Assistance Corporation (archive footage)

Bert Schneider

Character: Self - Producer, Hearts and Minds (archive footage)

Howard K. Smith

Character: Self - Host, ABC Evening News (archive footage)

Mario Van Peebles

Character: Self - Director, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (archive footage)

Sylvester Stallone

Character: Self/Rocky/Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (archive footage)

Steven Spielberg

Character: Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage)

Jack Nicholson

Character: Self (archive footage)

Roman Polanski

Character: Self - Director of Chinatown (archive footage)

Sidney Lumet

Character: Self - Director of Dog day afternoon (archive footage)

Charles Bronson

Character: Self - Actor in Death Wish (archive footage)

Richard Pryor

Character: Self (archive footage)

Al Pacino

Character: Sonny Wortzik (archive footage)

Robert De Niro

Character: Travis Bickle (archive footage)

Gene Hackman

Character: (archive footage)

Betty Ford

Character: Self (archive footage)