Breakdown: 1975
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.
Director Morgan Neville
Trailer
Cast
Bert Schneider
Self - Producer, Hearts and Minds (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Jack Nicholson
Self (The Passenger-archive footage)
Geraldo Rivera
Self - Host, Good Night America (archive footage)
David Byrne
Self (archive footage)
Nancy Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Irwin Winkler
Self (archive footage)
Frank Rich
Self
Todd Boyd
Self
John Chancellor
Self - Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
Howard K. Smith
Self - Host, ABC Evening News (archive footage)
Mario Van Peebles
Self - Director, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (archive footage)
Frank Church
Self - Chairman, Senate Select Committee (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Lynette Fromme
Self - Attempted Assassin of President Gerald Ford (archive footage)
Faye Dunaway
Self (Network- archive footage)
Chevy Chase
Self (Saturday Night Live- archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self - Former Governor of California (archive footage)
Robert De Niro
Travis Bickle (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra
Self (archive footage)
Wesley Morris
Self
Dan Rather
Self - Host, CBS Evening News (archive footage)
Sylvester Stallone
Self/Rocky/Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive photo)
Burt Reynolds
Self (archive footage)
Josh Brolin
Self
Joan Tewkesbury
Self
John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman
Self (The Towering Inferno-archive footage)
Donald Pleasence
Self (archive footage- Escape to Witch Mountain)
Richard Roundtree
Self (Shaft- archive footage)
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Self
Robert Altman
Self - Director, M*A*S*H & Nashville (archive footage)
David Brinkley
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
Bob Hope
Self - Co-Host, 47th Academy Awards (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive photo)
Oliver Stone
Self
Steven Spielberg
Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage)
Gene Hackman
Self (The Conversation/The Poseidon Adventure- archive footage)
Betty Ford
Self (archive footage)
Albert Brooks
Self
Louise Fletcher
Self (archive footage- One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest Nurse Ratched)
Patton Oswalt
Self
Peter Bart
Self
Gerald Ford
Self - 38th President of the United States (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Ted Kennedy
Self - Pro-Busing Senator (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Al Pacino
Sonny Wortzik (archive footage)
Johnny Carson
Self - Host, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Charles Bronson
Self - Actor in Death Wish (archive footage)
Richard Pryor
Self (archive footage), Self (archive photo/footage)
Pam Grier
Self (archive footage)
Martin Scorsese
Self
Kurt Andersen
Self
Seth Rogen
Self
Sam Wasson
Self
Sidney Lumet
Self - Director of Dog day afternoon (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage/photo)
Bill Gates
Self
Rick Perlstein
Self
Richard Nixon
Self - 37th President of the United States (archive footage), Self (archive footage)
Roman Polanski
Self - Director of Chinatown (archive footage)
Peter Finch
Self (archive footage- Howard Beale Network)
Jodie Foster
Narrator (voice)
Ellen Burstyn
Self