Director
Antoine Fuqua
DIRECTOR
Stars (in credits order)
Bill Cosby
Self(archiveFootage)
Diana Ross
Ossie Davis
Self(archiveFootage)(voice)
Jim Brown
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Dick Cavett
Stephen Stanton
Announcer(voice)
Nikki Giovanni
Aretha Franklin
Steve Allen
Muhammad Ali
Howard Cosell
Berry Gordy
George Foreman
Ken Norton
Self - Ali Opponent(archiveFootage)
Jimmy Carter
Joe Frazier
Jack Paar
Joe Bugner
Rocky Marciano
Jackie Robinson
Sonny Liston
Chuck Wepner
Ed Bradley
Larry Holmes
Gorgeous George
Floyd Patterson
Jerry Quarry
Drew Bundini Brown
Angelo Dundee
Tip O'Neill
Leon Spinks
Earnie Shavers
Ernie Terrell
Trevor Berbick
Richard Dunn
Wayne Bethea
Self - Liston Opponent(archiveFootage)
Joe E. Martin
Self - Louisville Boxing Coach(archiveFootage)
Oscar Bonavena
Larry J. Kolb
Self
Jimmy Ellis
Yank Durham
Self - Frazier Manager(archiveFootage)
Buster Mathis
Mac Foster
Tunney Hunsaker
Bill Haverman
Self - Louisville backer(archiveFootage)
Bob Foster
Phuc Cao
Young Ali
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski
Self - Olympic Opponent(archiveFootage)
Alan Hudson
Self - Amateur Opponent(archiveFootage)
Jürgen Blin
Alfredo Evangelista
Jimmy Jones
Count Basie
Self(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Fidel Castro
Odessa Clay
Bill Clinton
Self - At Olympics(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Sam Cooke
Henry Cooper
Self - Ali Opponent(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Jean-Pierre Coopman
Sammy Davis Jr.
Jackie Gleason
Maish Rennick in Requiem for a Heavyweight(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Merv Griffin
Arsenio Hall
Dustin Hoffman
Saddam Hussein
Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
Don King
Martin Luther King
Sugar Ray Leonard
Self - On Arsenio Hall Show(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Joe Louis
Malcolm X
Nelson Mandela
Arthur Mercante
Self - Referee(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Elijah Muhammad
Richard Nixon
Tony Perez
Pope John Paul II
Ronald Reagan
Sugar Ray Robinson
Bill Russell
Frank Rustich
Dinah Shore
Mike Tyson
Jersey Joe Walcott
Dick Young