| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Aisha Coley | Crew | Production | Casting |
Beverly Jo Pryor | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Makeup Department Head |
 Brad Pitt | Crew | Production | Executive Producer |
Cameron McCracken | Crew | Production | Executive Producer |
Christopher Assells | Crew | Sound | Sound Effects Editor |
 Dede Gardner | Crew | Production | Producer |
Greg Hedgepath | Crew | Sound | Supervising Sound Editor |
Kim Jennings | Crew | Art | Art Direction |
 Mark Friedberg | Crew | Art | Production Design |
 Matthias Gohl | Crew | Sound | Music Score Producer, Orchestrator |
Nan Morales | Crew | Production | Executive Producer |
 Oprah Winfrey | Crew | Production | Producer |
 Paul Goodwin Garnes | Crew | Production | Executive Producer |
Paul Hackner | Crew | Sound | Sound Effects Editor |
 Ruth E. Carter | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Costume Design |
 Stephen A. Pope | Crew | Crew | Stunt Coordinator |
Atsushi Nishijima | Crew | Camera | Still Photographer |
 Ava DuVernay | Crew | Directing | Director, Executive Producer, Writer |
Bill R. Dean | Crew | Sound | Sound Effects Editor |
 Christian Colson | Crew | Production | Producer |
Diarmuid McKeown | Crew | Production | Executive Producer |
Dottie Starling | Crew | Visual Effects | Visual Effects Supervisor |
Elizabeth Keenan | Crew | Art | Set Decoration |
 Jeremy Kleiner | Crew | Production | Producer |
 Bradford Young | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography |
Keitric Starks | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Makeup Artist |
Nik Bower | Crew | Production | Executive Producer |
 Paul Webb | Crew | Writing | Writer |
Spencer Averick | Crew | Editing | Editor |
 Raven-Danielle Baker | Crew | Crew | Stunts |
Kellie Robinson | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Makeup Artist |
Jason Moran | Crew | Sound | Original Music Composer |
 Cynthia Stillwell | Crew | Production | Casting Director |
Jonathan Keith | Crew | Production | Casting Director |
Erin G. Fuller | Crew | Art | Location Scout |
Karen Battiste | Crew | Crew | Stunts |
 Riley Flanagan | Crew | Crew | Set Production Assistant |
 Alessandro Nivola | Cast | Actor | John Doar |
 Carmen Ejogo | Cast | Actress | Coretta Scott King |
 Colman Domingo | Cast | Actor | Ralph Abernathy |
 Common | Cast | Actor | James Bevel |
 Cuba Gooding Jr. | Cast | Actor | Fred Gray |
 David Dwyer | Cast | Actor | Chief Wilson Baker |
 David Oyelowo | Cast | Actor | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
 Dylan Baker | Cast | Actor | J. Edgar Hoover |
 E. Roger Mitchell | Cast | Actor | Frederick Reese |
 Giovanni Ribisi | Cast | Actor | Lee White |
 Harry Belafonte | Cast | Actor | self (archive footage) |
 Henry G. Sanders | Cast | Actor | Cager Lee |
 Jeremy Strong | Cast | Actor | James Reeb |
 Jody Thompson | Cast | Actor | White Marcher |
 Kent Faulcon | Cast | Actor | Sullivan Jackson |
 Lorraine Toussaint | Cast | Actress | Amelia Boynton |
 Martin Sheen | Cast | Actor | Frank Minis Johnson |
 Michael Papajohn | Cast | Actor | Major Cloud |
 Niecy Nash | Cast | Actress | Richie Jean Jackson |
 Nigel Thatch | Cast | Actor | Malcolm X |
 Omar J. Dorsey | Cast | Actor | James Orange |
Oprah Winfrey | Cast | Actress | Annie Lee Cooper |
 Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Cast | Actor | Bayard Rustin |
 Sammy Davis Jr. | Cast | Actor | self (archive footage) |
 Stephen Root | Cast | Actor | Col. Al Lingo |
Tara Ochs | Cast | Actress | Viola Liuzzo |
 Tim Roth | Cast | Actor | Gov. George Wallace |
 Tom Wilkinson | Cast | Actor | President Lyndon B. Johnson |
 Tony Bennett | Cast | Actor | self (archive footage) |
 Wendell Pierce | Cast | Actor | Rev. Hosea Williams |
 Corey Reynolds | Cast | Actor | Rev. C.T. Vivian |
 Tessa Thompson | Cast | Actress | Diane Nash |
 Trai Byers | Cast | Actor | James Forman |
 André Holland | Cast | Actor | Andrew Young |
 Greg Maness | Cast | Actor | Aide |
 Haviland Stillwell | Cast | Actress | President's Secretary |
 Jim France | Cast | Actor | Gunnar Jahn |
 LaKeith Stanfield | Cast | Actor | Jimmie Lee Jackson |
 Ledisi | Cast | Actress | Mahalia Jackson |
Stan Houston | Cast | Sheriff Jim Clark | |
 Stephan James | Cast | Actor | John Lewis |
 Charity Jordan | Cast | Actress | Viola Lee Jackson |
 John Lavelle | Cast | Actor | Roy Reed |
 Charles Black | Cast | Actor | Elder Marcher |
 Montrel Miller | Cast | Actor | Young Marcher |
 Stormy Merriwether | Cast | Actress | Jackson's Daughter |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
