cast
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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
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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)
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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)