Louis Armstrong as Self (archive footage)

Nas as Self

Wynton Marsalis as Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self (archive footage)

Orson Welles as Self (archive footage)

Archie Shepp as Self (voice) (archive sound)

Count Basie as Self (voice) (archive sound)

Lucille Armstrong as Self (voice) (archive sound)

Dan Morganstern as Self

Steve Allen as Self (voice) (archive sound)

Edward R. Marrow as Self (archive footage)

Danny Baker as Self- Voice

George Jones as Self (voice) (archive sound)

Mike Douglas as Self (archive footage)

Jelly Roll Morton as Self (voice) (archive sound)

James Baldwin as Self (archive footage)

Jimi Hendrix as Self (archive footage)

Dick Cavett as Self (archive footage)

Tommy Rockwell as Self (archive footage)

Ray Charles as Self (archive footage)

Sam Cooke as Self (archive footage)

James Brown as Self (archive footage)

John Lennon as Self (archive footage)

Paul McCartney as Self (archive footage)

George Harrison as Self (archive footage)

Ringo Starr as Self (archive footage)

Leonard Bernstein as Self (archive footage)

Al Capone as Self (archive footage)

Ed Sullivan as Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr. as Self (archive footage)

James Stewart as Self - Glenn Miller (archive footage)

Bing Crosby as Self - C.K Dexter-Haven (archive footage)

Barbra Streisand as Self (archive footage)

Miles Davis as Self (voice) (archive sound)

Slim Thompson as Self (voice) (archive sound)

Ossie Davis as Self (archive footage)

Sammy Davis Jr. as Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage)

Walter Cronkite as Self (voice) (archive sound)