Casts

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  Jodie Foster

  Narrator (voice)

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  Albert Brooks

  Self

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  Ellen Burstyn

  Self

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  Frank Rich

  Self

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  Martin Scorsese

  Self

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  Josh Brolin

  Self

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  Oliver Stone

  Self

• James Risen

  Self

• James Wolcott

  Self

• Jefferson Cowie

  Self

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  Bill Gates

  Self

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  Joan Tewkesbury

  Self

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  Kurt Andersen

  Self

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  Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

  Self

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  Seth Rogen

  Self

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  Wesley Morris

  Self

• Naomi Fry

  Self

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  Patton Oswalt

  Self

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  Peter Bart

  Self

• Peter Biskind

  Self

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  Rick Perlstein

  Self

• Sam Wasson

  Self

• Todd Boyd

  Self

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  Robert Altman

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

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  David Brinkley

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

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  Johnny Carson

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

• Kathy Carter

  Self - Anti-Busing Activist (archive footage)

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  John Chancellor

  Self - Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)

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  Frank Church

  Self - Chairman, Senate Select Committee (archive footage)

• Sue Connor

  Self - Anti-Busing Activist (archive footage)

• Rennie Davis

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

• Werner Erhard

  Self - Founder, EST (archive footage)

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  Gerald Ford

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

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  Lynette Fromme

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

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  Bob Hope

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

• Ken Kashiwahara

  Self - ABC News Reporter (archive footage

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  Ted Kennedy

  Self - Pro-Busing Senator (archive footage)

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  Richard Nixon

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

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  Dan Rather

  Self - Host, CBS Evening News (archive footage)

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  Ronald Reagan

  Self - Former Governor of California (archive footage)

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  Geraldo Rivera

  Self - Host, Good Night America (archive footage)

• Felix Rohatyn

  Self - Chairman, Municipal Assistance Corporation (archive footage)

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  Bert Schneider

  Self - Producer, Hearts and Minds (archive footage)

• Howard K. Smith

  Self - Host, ABC Evening News (archive footage)

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  Mario Van Peebles

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

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  Sylvester Stallone

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

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  Steven Spielberg

  Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage)

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  Jack Nicholson

  Self (archive footage)

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  Roman Polanski

  Self - Director of Chinatown (archive footage)

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  Sidney Lumet

  Self - Director of Dog day afternoon (archive footage)

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  Charles Bronson

  Self - Actor in Death Wish (archive footage)

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  Richard Pryor

  Self (archive footage)

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  Al Pacino

  Sonny Wortzik (archive footage)

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  Robert De Niro

  Travis Bickle (archive footage)

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  Gene Hackman

  (archive footage)

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  Betty Ford

  Self (archive footage)