Bob Dylan as Self

Allen Ginsberg as Self

Joan Baez as Self

Johnny Cash as Self (archive footage)

Pete Seeger as Self

Mavis Staples as Self

Dave Van Ronk as Self

D. A. Pennebaker as Self

John F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr. as Self (archive footage)

Martin Scorsese as Self (voice) (uncredited)

Suze Rotolo as Self

Liam Clancy as Self

Maria Muldaur as Self

Robbie Robertson as Self (archive footage)

Richard Manuel as Self (archive footage)

Bob Neuwirth as Self

Bruce Langhorne as Self

Peter Yarrow as Self

Rick Danko as Self (archive footage)

Garth Hudson as Self (archive footage)

Woody Guthrie as Self (archive footage)