Cast

Jodie Foster

Narrator (voice)



Albert Brooks

Self



Ellen Burstyn

Self



Frank Rich

Self



Martin Scorsese

Self



Josh Brolin

Self



Oliver Stone

Self



James Risen

Self



James Wolcott

Self



Jefferson Cowie

Self



Bill Gates

Self



Joan Tewkesbury

Self



Kurt Andersen

Self



Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Self



Seth Rogen

Self



Wesley Morris

Self



Naomi Fry

Self



Patton Oswalt

Self



Peter Bart

Self



Peter Biskind

Self



Rick Perlstein

Self



Sam Wasson

Self



Todd Boyd

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)



Kathy Carter

Self - Anti-Busing Activist (archive footage)



John Chancellor

Self - Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)



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)



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)



Ken Kashiwahara

Self - ABC News Reporter (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)



Felix Rohatyn

Self - Chairman, Municipal Assistance Corporation (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)