Breakdown: 1975

In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.

Documentary History Drama

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))