Breakdown: 1975

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

Documentary

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))

Sidney Lumet

((archive footage))

Charles Bronson

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Richard Pryor

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Al Pacino

((archive footage))

Robert De Niro

((archive footage))

Gene Hackman

((archive footage))

Betty Ford

((archive footage))

Pam Grier

((archive footage))

Faye Dunaway

((archive footage))

Louise Fletcher

((archive footage))

John Wayne

((archive footage))

Richard Nixon

((archive footage))

Gerald Ford

((archive footage))

Paul Newman

((archive footage))

David Byrne

((archive footage))

Peter Finch

((archive footage))

Donald Pleasence

((archive footage))

Richard Roundtree

((archive footage))

Chevy Chase

((archive footage))

Bert Schneider

((archive footage))

Bob Hope

((archive footage))

Frank Sinatra

((archive footage))

John F. Kennedy

((archive footage))

Robert F. Kennedy

((archive footage))

Frank Church

((archive footage))

Kathy Carter

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Johnny Carson

((archive footage))

Ted Kennedy

((archive footage))

Burt Reynolds

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Nancy Reagan

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Irwin Winkler

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Sylvester Stallone

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