Jodie Foster

Narrator (voice)

Albert Brooks

Self

Ellen Burstyn

Self

Frank Rich

Self

Martin Scorsese

Self

Josh Brolin

Self

Oliver Stone

Self

Bill Gates

Self

Joan Tewkesbury

Self

Kurt Andersen

Self

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Self

Seth Rogen

Self

Wesley Morris

Self

Patton Oswalt

Self

Peter Bart

Self

Rick Perlstein

Self

Robert Altman

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

David Brinkley

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

Johnny Carson

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

John Chancellor

Self - Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)

Frank Church

Self - Chairman, Senate Select Committee (archive footage)

Gerald Ford

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

Lynette Fromme

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

Bob Hope

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

Ted Kennedy

Self - Pro-Busing Senator (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

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

Dan Rather

Self - Host, CBS Evening News (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self - Former Governor of California (archive footage)

Geraldo Rivera

Self - Host, Good Night America (archive footage)

Bert Schneider

Self - Producer, Hearts and Minds (archive footage)

Howard K. Smith

Self - Host, ABC Evening News (archive footage)

Mario Van Peebles

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

Sylvester Stallone

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

Steven Spielberg

Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage)

Jack Nicholson

Self (archive footage)

Roman Polanski

Self - Director of Chinatown (archive footage)

Sidney Lumet

Self - Director of Dog day afternoon (archive footage)

Charles Bronson

Self - Actor in Death Wish (archive footage)

Richard Pryor

Self (archive footage)

Al Pacino

Sonny Wortzik (archive footage)

Robert De Niro

Travis Bickle (archive footage)

Gene Hackman

(archive footage)

Betty Ford

Self (archive footage)