Adam Curtis as Self - Narrator (voice)

Donald Trump as Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Putin as Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger as Self (archive footage)

Gordon Brown as Self (archive footage)

Jane Fonda as Self (archive footage)

Ivana Trump as Self (archive footage)

Benjamin Netanyahu as Self (archive footage)

Tony Blair as Self (archive footage)

George W. Bush as Self (archive footage)

Barack Obama as Self (archive footage)

David Cameron as Self (archive footage)

Nigel Farage as Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton as Self (archive footage)

Hillary Clinton as Self (archive footage)

Muammar Gaddafi as Self (archive footage)

Victor Gotbaum as Self (archive footage)

Ruhollah Khomeini as Self (archive footage)

Timothy Leary as Self (archive footage)

John Perry Barlow as Self (archive footage)

Mark Abene as Self (archive footage) (as Phiber Optik)

Nancy Reagan as Self (archive footage)

Louis Farrakhan as Self (archive footage)

Richard Doty as Self (archive footage)

Robert Parry as Self (archive footage)

Elena Ceaușescu as Self (archive footage)

Nicolae Ceaușescu as Self (archive footage)

Jim Goodwin as Self (archive footage)

Yusuf al-Qaradawi as Self (archive footage)

Saddam Hussein as Self (archive footage)

Sean Connery as Self (archive footage)

Nicolas Cage as Self (archive footage)

Bashar Hafez al-Assad as Self (archive footage)

Hafez al-Assad as Self (archive footage)

Daniel Pearl as Self (archive footage)

Kim Kardashian as Self (archive footage)

Vladislav Surkov as Self (archive footage)

Wael Ghonim as Self (archive footage)

Seth Meyers as Self (archive footage)

Abu Musab al-Suri as Self (archive footage)

Sissy Spacek as Self (archive footage)

Jeff Bridges as Self (archival footage)

Judea Pearl as Self (archive footage)

Stephen Colbert as Self (archive footage)