Ralph Fiennes as Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire

Taghi Amirani as Self - Filmmaker

Farhad Diba as Self - Mossadegh's Nephew

Malcolm Byrne as Self - Researcher

Stephen Kinzer as Self - Writer

Walter Murch as Self - Film Editor

Ervand Abrahamian as Self - Writer

Alison Rooper as Self - End of Empire (1985) Researcher

David Owen as Self - Politician

Mark Anderson as Self - End of Empire (1985) Producer (voice)

Humphry Trevelyan as Self - End of Empire (1985) Cameraman

Chris Morphet as Self - Cameraman

Rameza Mahsani as Self - Former Ferry Boat Captain

Adbolzahra Baghlani as Self - Former Gardener

Ghobad Fakhimi as Self - Former Oil Engineer

Nigel Hawkes as Self - Journalist (voice)

Stephen Dorril as Self - Writer

Hamid Ahmadi as Self - Researcher

Mousa Mehran as Self - Mossadegh's Former Bodyguard

Ardeshir Zahedi as Self - Former Politician

David Talbot as Self - Writer

Siavush Randjbar-Daemi as Self - Historian

Ahmad Djalili as Self - Photojournalist

Haj Habib as Self - Butcher

Abdolmajid Bayat as Self - Mossadegh's Grandson

Esmail Yazdi as Self - Mossadegh's Doctor

Andrew Goddard as Loyal Guard

Kane Morrell as Colonel Nassiri

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Winston Churchill as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Richard Nixon as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Mohammad Mosaddegh as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Julian Amery as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Kermit Roosevelt as Self - CIA Officer (archive footage)

Bernie Sanders as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Frank Reynolds as Self - Anchorman (archive footage)

Peter Ramsbotham as Self - British Official (archive footage)

Donald Logan as Self - British Official (archive footage)

Henry Grady as Self - US Diplomat (archive footage)

Sam Falle as Self - British Official (archive footage)

Stephen Meade as Self - CIA Agent (archive footage)

Nasrollah Fatemi as Self - Iranian Diplomat (archive footage)

Peter Avery as Self - Teacher (archive footage)

Eric Drake as Self - Refinery Manager (archive footage)

Fouad Rouhani as Self - Legal Advisor (archive footage)

Frank Soskice as Self - UK Attorney General (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Basil Jackson as Self - Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. VP (archive footage)

Joe Addison as Self - Lawyer (archive footage)

Shapour Bakhtiar as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Abolhassan Banisadr as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Fazlollah Zahedi as Self - Army General (archive footage)

George Middleton as Self - British Official (archive footage)

George McGhee as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph McCarthy as Self - Politician (archive footage)

John Foster Dulles as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Richard Cottam as Self - CIA Officer (archive footage)

Fereydoun Azarnour as Self - Tudeh Militant (archive footage)

Princess Ashraf Pahlavi of Iran as Self - Shah's Sister (archive footage)

Mehdi Homayouni as Self - Royal Guard / Tudeh Militant (archive footage)

Abol-Ghasem Kashani as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Alireza Saheb as Self - Mossadegh's Aide (archive footage)

Nematollah Nassiri as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari as Self - Queen Consort (archive footage)

Amir Pishdad as Self - Medical Student (1953) (archive footage)

Abbas Aghelizadeh as Self - Tudeh Militant (archive footage)

Efraim Halevy as Self - Mossad Head (archive footage)

Jacobo Árbenz as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Jimmy Carter as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Ruhollah Khomeini as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Donald Trump as Self - Politician (archive footage)