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

(archive footage)

David Brinkley

(archive footage)

John Chancellor

(archive footage)

Sue Connor

(archive footage)

Rennie Davis

(archive footage)

Werner Erhard

(archive footage)

Lynette Fromme

(archive footage)

Ken Kashiwahara

(archive footage)

Dan Rather

(archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

(archive footage)

Geraldo Rivera

(archive footage)

Felix Rohatyn

(archive footage)

Howard K. Smith

(archive footage)

Mario Van Peebles

(archive footage)

Steven Spielberg

(archive footage)

Jack Nicholson

(archive footage)

Roman Polanski

(archive footage)