Elenco (na ordem dos créditos)
Joseph B. Anderson
Self
Anthony Astuccio
George R. Christmas
Peter Braestrup
Richard Basehart
Narrator
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Self (biographer of LBJ)
David Harris
Self (husband of Joan Baez)
Daniel Ellsberg
Eugene McCarthy
Self (presidential candidate)
Tim O'Brien
Self (veteran, US Army)
Alexander Haig
Self (Nixon's Chief of Staff)
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Self (US Ambassador to South Vietnam)
William C. Westmoreland
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Self (Kennedy advisor)
Jerry Rubin
Self (peace activist)
Brian Jenkins
Self (military analyst)
Clark Clifford
Self (Secretary of Defense)
William Colby
Self (CIA Director)
David Dellinger
Self (pacifist leader)
J. William Fulbright
John Ehrlichman
Self (Nixon's senior domestic aide)
Robert Komer
Jack McCloskey
Self (veteran, USMC)
Nguyen Van Thieu
Self (President of South Vietnam)
Tom McClure
Ellsworth Bunker
Maxwell Taylor
Melvin Laird
Self (Nixon's Secretary of Defense)
Dean Rusk
Self (LBJ's Secretary of State)
Jane Fonda
Selfuncredited,archiveFootage
Muhammad Ali
Pat Nixon
Joan Baez
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Martin Luther King
Henry Kissinger
Robert F. Kennedy
Ho Chí Minh
Coretta Scott King
Stokely Carmichael
Spiro Agnew
Nelson Rockefeller
Daniel Berrigan
Martha Mitchell
Richard J. Daley
Self (Mayor of Chicago)uncredited,archiveFootage
Ramsey Clark
Self (in Cabinet meeting with LBJ)uncredited,archiveFootage
Nguyen Giap Vo
Earl Warren
John Mitchell
Van Dong Pham
Duc Tho Le