Breakdown: 1975

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

Jodie Foster

(Narrator (voice))

Albert Brooks

Ellen Burstyn

Frank Rich

Martin Scorsese

Josh Brolin

Oliver Stone

James Risen

James Wolcott

Jefferson Cowie

Bill Gates

Joan Tewkesbury

Kurt Andersen

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Seth Rogen

Wesley Morris

Naomi Fry

Patton Oswalt

Peter Bart

Peter Biskind

Rick Perlstein

Sam Wasson

Todd Boyd

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 (The Passenger-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

(Self (The Conversation/The Poseidon Adventure- archive footage))

Betty Ford

(Self (archive footage))

Pam Grier

(Self (archive footage))

Faye Dunaway

(Self (Network- archive footage))

Louise Fletcher

(Self (archive footage- One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest Nurse Ratched))

John Wayne

(Self (archive footage))

Richard Nixon

(Self (archive footage))

Gerald Ford

(Self (archive footage))

Paul Newman

(Self (The Towering Inferno-archive footage))

David Byrne

(Self (archive footage))

Peter Finch

(Self (archive footage- Howard Beale Network))

Donald Pleasence

(Self (archive footage- Escape to Witch Mountain))

Richard Pryor

(Self (archive photo/footage))

Richard Roundtree

(Self (Shaft- archive footage))

Chevy Chase

(Self (Saturday Night Live- archive footage))

Bert Schneider

(Self (archive footage))

Bob Hope

(Self (archive footage))

Frank Sinatra

(Self (archive footage))

John F. Kennedy

(Self (archive footage/photo))

Robert F. Kennedy

(Self (archive footage))

Martin Luther King Jr.

(Self (archive photo))

Frank Church

(Self (archive footage))

Adolf Hitler

(Self (archive photo))

Kathy Carter

(Self (archive footage))

Johnny Carson

(Self (archive footage))

Ted Kennedy

(Self (archive footage))

Burt Reynolds

(Self (archive footage))

Nancy Reagan

(Self (archive footage))

Irwin Winkler

(Self (archive footage))

Sylvester Stallone

(Self (archive footage))