On screen
Cast
25 credited performers
Gore Vidal
Self
William F. Buckley Jr.
Self
Kelsey Grammer
Voice of William F. Buckley
John Lithgow
Voice of Gore Vidal
Dick Cavett
Self
Christopher Hitchens
Self
Noam Chomsky
Self (archival)
Artwork unavailable
Reid Buckley
Self
Andrew Sullivan
Self
Artwork unavailable
Todd Gitlin
Self
Artwork unavailable
Brooke Gladstone
Self
Paul Newman
Self (archival)
Arthur Miller
Self (archival)
Muhammad Ali
Self (archival)
Sam Donaldson
Self (archival)
Norman Mailer
Self (archival)
Artwork unavailable
Matt Tyrnauer
Self
Godfrey Cambridge
Self (archival)
John McWhorter
Self
Artwork unavailable
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Self
Artwork unavailable
James J. Kilpatrick
Self (archival)
Richard J. Daley
Self (archival)
Artwork unavailable
Everett Dirksen
Self (archival)
Artwork unavailable
James Wolcott
Self
Woody Allen
Self (archival)