Riven

Jodie Foster

as Narrator (voice)

Albert Brooks

as Self

Ellen Burstyn

as Self

Frank Rich

as Self

Martin Scorsese

as Self

Josh Brolin

as Self

Oliver Stone

as Self

James Risen

as Self

James Wolcott

as Self

Jefferson Cowie

as Self

Bill Gates

as Self

Joan Tewkesbury

as Self

Kurt Andersen

as Self

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

as Self

Seth Rogen

as Self

Wesley Morris

as Self

Naomi Fry

as Self

Patton Oswalt

as Self

Peter Bart

as Self

Peter Biskind

as Self

Rick Perlstein

as Self

Sam Wasson

as Self

Todd Boyd

as Self

Robert Altman

as Self - Director, M*A*S*H & Nashville (archive footage)

David Brinkley

as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)

Johnny Carson

as Self - Host, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (archive footage)

Kathy Carter

as Self - Anti-Busing Activist (archive footage)

John Chancellor

as Self - Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)

Frank Church

as Self - Chairman, Senate Select Committee (archive footage)

Sue Connor

as Self - Anti-Busing Activist (archive footage)

Rennie Davis

as Self - Anti-War Activist & Venture Capitalist (archive footage)

Werner Erhard

as Self - Founder, EST (archive footage)

Gerald Ford

as Self - 38th President of the United States (archive footage)

Lynette Fromme

as Self - Attempted Assassin of President Gerald Ford (archive footage)

Bob Hope

as Self - Co-Host, 47th Academy Awards (archive footage)

Ken Kashiwahara

as Self - ABC News Reporter (archive footage

Ted Kennedy

as Self - Pro-Busing Senator (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

as Self - 37th President of the United States (archive footage)

Dan Rather

as Self - Host, CBS Evening News (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

as Self - Former Governor of California (archive footage)

Geraldo Rivera

as Self - Host, Good Night America (archive footage)

Felix Rohatyn

as Self - Chairman, Municipal Assistance Corporation (archive footage)

Bert Schneider

as Self - Producer, Hearts and Minds (archive footage)

Howard K. Smith

as Self - Host, ABC Evening News (archive footage)

Mario Van Peebles

as Self - Director, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (archive footage)

Sylvester Stallone

as Self/Rocky/Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (archive footage)

Steven Spielberg

as Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage)

Jack Nicholson

as Self (archive footage)

Roman Polanski

as Self - Director of Chinatown (archive footage)

Sidney Lumet

as Self - Director of Dog day afternoon (archive footage)

Charles Bronson

as Self - Actor in Death Wish (archive footage)

Richard Pryor

as Self (archive footage)

Al Pacino

as Sonny Wortzik (archive footage)

Robert De Niro

as Travis Bickle (archive footage)

Gene Hackman

as (archive footage)

Betty Ford

as Self (archive footage)

Morgan Neville

Director