Cast (56)

Sam Donaldson

Self

Ernest R. May

Self (as Prof. Ernest R. May)

Sergei Khrushchev

Self

Marvin Kalb

Self

Philip D. Zelikow

Self (as Prof. Philip Zelikow)

Dino A. Brugioni

Self (as Dino Brugioni)

Raymond Garthoff

Self

Herbert Kaplow

Self

Helen Thomas

Self

Tad Szulc

Self

Pierre Salinger

Self

Helen Westwood

Self

David Self

Self

Kenneth Keating

Self (archive footage) (as Sen. Kenneth Keating)

Dean Acheson

Self (archive footage)

Konrad Adenauer

Self (archive footage)

Dylan Baker

Robert McNamara (archive footage)

Len Cariou

Dean Acheson (archive footage)

Fidel Castro

Self (archive footage)

Neville Chamberlain

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Kevin Conway

General Curtis LeMay (archive footage)

Kevin Costner

Kenneth O'Donnell (archive footage)

Steven Culp

Robert F. Kennedy (archive footage)

John Foster Dulles

Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Mamie Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Charles Esten

Major Anderson (archive footage)

Michael Fairman

Adlai E. Stevenson (archive footage)

Roswell Gilpatric

Self (archive footage)

Bruce Greenwood

John F. Kennedy (archive footage)

Andrei Gromyko

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson)

Jacqueline Kennedy

Self (archive footage) (as Jackie Kennedy)

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Joseph P. Kennedy

Self (archive footage) (as Joseph Kennedy Sr.)

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Rose Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

Self (archive footage)

Ed Lauter

Lt. General Marshall Carter (archive footage)

Curtis LeMay

Self (archive footage)

Harold Macmillan

Self (archive footage)

Robert McNamara

Self (archive footage)

Edward R. Murrow

Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage) (as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

Dean Rusk

Self (archive footage)

Bill Smitrovich

General Maxwell Taylor (archive footage)

Iosif Stalin

Self (archive footage)

Adlai Stevenson

Self (archive footage)

Llewellyn Thompson

Self (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage)

Valerian Zorin

Self (archive footage)