On screen
Cast
30 credited performers
Will Lyman
Narrator
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Hồ Chí Minh
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
John Foster Dulles
Self (archive footage)
Jacqueline Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Robert McNamara
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Maxwell Taylor
Self
Birch Bayh
Self (archive footage)
Douglas MacArthur
Self (archive footage)
Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Christian de Castries
Self (archive footage)
Pierre Mendès France
Self (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Walt Rostow
Self (archive footage)
Ngô Đình Diệm
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Madame Nhu
Self
Lady Bird Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
J. William Fulbright
Self (archive footage)
Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen
Self
Jack Valenti
Self
Artwork unavailable
William C. Westmoreland
Self
Bill Moyers
Self
Barry Goldwater
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
McGeorge Bundy
Self