Kenneth Branagh as Narrator (voice)

Walter Bernstein as Self (uncredited)

Ray Bradbury as Self (uncredited)

Sydney Chaplin as Self

Brigitte Hamann as Self (uncredited)

Al Hirschfeld as Self (uncredited)

Stanley Kauffmann as Self (uncredited)

Sidney Lumet as Self (uncredited)

Nikola Radosevic as Self (uncredited)

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. as Self (uncredited)

Budd Schulberg as Self (uncredited)

Gitta Sereny as Self (uncredited)

Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Oona O'Neill Chaplin as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Syd Chaplin as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Martin Dies as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Douglas Fairbanks as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Goebbels as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

D.W. Griffith as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry Ford as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ivor Montagu as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Benito Mussolini as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mary Pickford as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Reinhard Spitzy as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bernard Vorhaus as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)