| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Peter W. Kunhardt | Crew | Directing | Director |
 Barbara Walters | Cast | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
 Dan Rather | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Daniel Ellsberg | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Daniel Schorr | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 David Brinkley | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 E. Howard Hunt | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Edwin Newman | Cast | Self (archive footage) | |
 Garrick Utley | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Harry Reasoner | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Henry Kissinger | Cast | Actor | Self (archive sound) |
 Howard K. Smith | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 J. Edgar Hoover | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 John Chancellor | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
John Dean | Cast | Self (archive footage) | |
John Ehrlichman | Cast | Self (archive sound) | |
 John F. Kennedy | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 John Kerry | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Martha Mitchell | Cast | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
John Mitchell | Cast | Self (archive footage) | |
 Pat Buchanan | Cast | Actor | Self (archive sound) |
 Pat Nixon | Cast | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
 Richard Nixon | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Sam Donaldson | Cast | Self (archive footage) | |
 Ted Kennedy | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Walter Cronkite | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
William Rogers | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Bob Schieffer | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Billy Graham | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Mao Zedong | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Tricia Nixon Cox | Cast | Self (archive footage) | |
 George McGovern | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Ronald Ziegler | Cast | Self (archive sound) | |
Stephen Bull | Cast | Self - White House Aide (archive sound) | |
Alexander Butterfield | Cast | Self (archive footage) | |
Charles Colson | Cast | Self (archive footage) | |
Sam Ervin | Cast | Self (archive footage) | |
Carol Feraci | Cast | Self - Ray Conniff Singer (archive footage) | |
Alexander Haig | Cast | Self (archive sound) | |
 H.R. Haldeman | Cast | Actor | Self (archive sound) |
Thomas Moorer | Cast | Self (archive sound) | |
Julie Nixon | Cast | Actress | Self (archive sound) |
Adele Rogers | Cast | Self (archive footage) | |
George Romney | Cast | Self (archive footage) | |
Lenore Romney | Cast | Self (archive footage) | |
George Rosenberg | Cast | Self - Immigration Official (archive footage) | |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
