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Cast 157

  1. Barack Obama

    Self (archive footage)

  2. Estelle Caswell

    Narrator (voice)

  3. Joe Biden

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Maria Bello

    Narrator (voice)

  5. JAŸ-Z

    Self (voice)

  6. Samira Wiley

    Narrator (voice)

  7. George H. W. Bush

    Self (archive footage)

  8. Donald Trump

    Self (archive footage)

  9. Richard Nixon

    Self (archive footage)

  10. Lyndon B. Johnson

    Self (archive footage)

  11. Vladimir Putin

    Self (archive footage)

  12. Joss Fong

    Narrator (voice)

  13. Christian Slater

    Narrator (voice)

  14. LeVar Burton

    Narrator (voice)

  15. Nick Kroll

    Narrator (voice)

  16. Aasif Mandvi

    Narrator (voice)

  17. Kevin Smith

    Narrator (voice)

  18. Coleman Lowndes

    Narrator (voice)

  19. Yara Shahidi

    Narrator (voice)

  20. Kristen Bell

    Narrator (voice)

  21. Rachel Bloom

    Narrator (voice)

  22. Jerry Springer

    Narrator (voice)

  23. Rachel McAdams

    Narrator (voice)

  24. Kyle MacLachlan

    Narrator (voice)

  25. Carly Rae Jepsen

    Narrator (voice)

  26. Tablo

    Self

  27. Jimin

    Self (archive footage)

  28. SUGA

    Self (archive footage)

  29. V

    Self (archive footage)

  30. Jin

    Self (archive footage)

  31. RM

    Self (archive footage)

  32. Jung Kook

    Self (archive footage)

  33. j-hope

    Self (archive footage)

  34. Park Chung-hee

    Self (archive footage)

  35. Yang Hyun-suk

    Self (archive footage)

  38. Lee Soo-man

    Self (archive footage)

  39. Kim Dae-jung

    Self (archive footage)

  40. PSY

    Self (archive footage)

  43. Elizabeth Warren

    Self (archive footage)

  44. Kirsten Gillibrand

    Self (archive footage)

  45. Sandra Day O'Connor

    Self (archive footage)

  46. Anderson Cooper

    Self (archive footage)

  47. Hilary Swank

    Narrator (voice)

  48. Maggie Siff

    Narrator (voice)

  50. Michael Jordan

    Self (archive footage)

  52. LaKeith Stanfield

    Narrator (voice)

  53. J.K. Simmons

    Narrator (voice)

  55. Vincent Kartheiser

    Narrator (voice)

  56. Natasha Lyonne

    Narrator (voice)

  57. Cleo Abram

    Narrator (voice)

  58. Andrew Carnegie

    Self (archive footage)

  59. Warren Buffett

    Self (archive footage)

  60. John D. Rockefeller

    Self (archive footage)

  61. Cornelius Vanderbilt

    Self (archive footage)

  62. John Maynard Keynes

    Self (archive footage)

  63. Mehrsa Baradaran

    Self - Author

  64. Cory Booker

    Self - U.S. Senator

  65. Thomas Shapiro

    Self - Sociologist

  66. Beth Jacobson

    Self - Foreclosure Specialist

  67. James Baldwin

    Self (archive footage)

  68. Edward A. Bouchet

    Self - First Black Ph.D Recipient (archive footage)

  69. Shirley Chisholm

    Self (archive footage)

  70. Bill Clinton

    Self (archive footage)

  71. Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Self (archive footage)

  72. Stephen Colbert

    Self (archive footage)

  73. Bessie Coleman

    Self - First Black Licensed Pilot (archive footage)

  74. Alan Greenspan

    Self (archive footage)

  75. Jesse Jackson

    Self (archive footage)

  76. Robert L. Johnson

    Self - First Black Billionaire (archive footage)

  77. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Self (archive footage)

  78. Dennis Kucinich

    Self (archive footage)

  79. Abraham Lincoln

    Self (archive footage)

  80. Alain Leroy Locke

    Self - First Black Rhodes Scholar (archive footage)

  81. Malcolm X

    Self (archive footage)

  82. Thurgood Marshall

    Self - First Black Supreme Court Justice (archive footage)

  83. Hattie McDaniel

    Self - First Black Oscar Winner (archive footage)

  84. Michelle Obama

    Self - First Black First Lady (archive footage)

  85. Jesse Owens

    Self - Four-Time Olympic Gold Medalist (archive footage)

  86. Colin Powell

    Self - First Black Secretary of State (archive footage)

  87. Joseph Rainey

    Self - First Black Congressperson (archive footage)

  88. Hiram Revels

    Self - First Black Senator (archive footage)

  89. Jackie Robinson

    Self - First Black MLB Player (archive footage)

  90. Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Self (archive footage)

  91. Rick Santelli

    Self (archive footage)

  92. William Tecumseh Sherman

    Self (archive footage)

  93. Ruth Simmons

    Self - First Black Ivy League President (archive footage)

  94. Edwin M. Stanton

    Self (archive footage)

  95. George Stephanopoulos

    Self (archive footage)

  96. Brian Williams

    Self (archive footage)

  97. Neville Sanjana

    Self - Biologist

  98. Jennifer Doudna

    Self - CRISPR Pioneer

  99. John Evans

    Self - Sociologist

  100. Hank Greely

    Self - Law Professor

  101. Rebecca Cokley

    Self - Disability Rights Activist

  102. Emmanuelle Charpentier

    Self (archive footage)

  103. Francis Collins

    Self (archive footage)

  104. Dick Costolo

    Self (archive footage)

  105. Don Lemon

    Self (archive footage)

  106. Keith Morrison

    Self (archive footage)

  107. Reena Ninan

    Self (archive footage)

  109. John Franklin Stephens

    Self (archive footage)

  110. Keri Russell

    Narrator (voice)

  111. John Waters

    Narrator (voice)

  112. Karlie Kloss

    Narrator (voice)

  113. Aya Cash

    Narrator (voice)

  114. Adolf Eichmann

    Self (archive footage)

  115. Big Boi

    Self (archive footage)

  116. Jane Fonda

    Self (archive footage)

  117. Noam Chomsky

    Self (archive footage)

  118. Mike Wallace

    Self (archive footage)

  119. Rosario Dawson

    Narrator (voice)

  120. Fidel Castro

    Self (archive footage)

  121. George W. Bush

    Self (archive footage)

  122. Adolf Hitler

    Self (archive footage)

  123. Ronald Reagan

    Self (archive footage)

  124. Nelson Mandela

    Self (archive footage)

  125. Ann Coulter

    Self (archive footage)

  126. Peter Jennings

    Self (archive footage)

  127. Dan Rather

    Self (archive footage)

  128. Tom Brokaw

    Self (archive footage)

  129. Ethan Hawke

    Narrator (voice)

  130. Boris Johnson

    Self (archive footage)

  131. Jake Gyllenhaal

    Narrator (voice)

  132. Rainn Wilson

    Narrator (voice)

  133. Sophie Okonedo

    Narrator (voice)

  134. Keke Palmer

    Narrator (voice)

  135. Héctor Elizondo

    Narrator (voice)

  136. Kim Cattrall

    Narrator (voice)

  137. Kelly Rowland

    Narrator (voice)

  138. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

    Narrator (voice)

  139. Connie Britton

    Narrator (voice)

  140. Ruth Negga

    Narrator (voice)

  141. Doja Cat

    Self (archive footage)

  142. Moon Jae-in

    Self (archive footage)

  143. Xi Jinping

    Self (archive footage)

  144. Justin Trudeau

    Self (archive footage)

  145. Ted Cruz

    Self (archive footage)

  146. Michael Bloomberg

    Self (archive footage)

  147. Seo Tai-ji

    Self (archive footage)

  149. Jim Jones

    Self (archive footage)

  150. Catherine Oxenberg

    Self - Mother of NXIVM Cult Member

  151. Mark Zuckerberg

    Self (archive footage)

  152. Muhammad Ali

    Self (archive footage)

  153. Doug E. Fresh

    Self (archive footage)

  154. Gigi Hadid

    Self (archive footage)

  155. Leo J. Ryan

    Self (archive footage)

Crew 8

  1. Caresse Hasser

    Art Direction

  2. Emily Kassie

    Director

  3. Joe Posner

    Executive Producer

  4. Claire Gordon

    Executive Producer

  5. Ezra Klein

    Executive Producer

  6. Cleo Abram

    Producer

  7. Emily Kassie

    Producer