Breakdown: 1975
Documentary
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.
2025-12-18
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Cast
Director
Morgan Neville
Jodie Foster as Narrator (voice)
Albert Brooks as Self
Ellen Burstyn as Self
Frank Rich as Self
Martin Scorsese as Self
Josh Brolin as Self
Oliver Stone as Self
Bill Gates as Self
Joan Tewkesbury as Self
Kurt Andersen as Self
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as Self
Seth Rogen as Self
Wesley Morris as Self
Patton Oswalt as Self
Peter Bart as Self
Rick Perlstein as Self
Sam Wasson as Self
Todd Boyd as Self
Robert Altman as Self - Director, M*A*S*H & Nashville (archive footage)
David Brinkley as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
Johnny Carson as Self - Host, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (archive footage)
John Chancellor as Self - Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
Frank Church as Self - Chairman, Senate Select Committee (archive footage)
Gerald Ford as Self - 38th President of the United States (archive footage)
Lynette Fromme as Self - Attempted Assassin of President Gerald Ford (archive footage)
Bob Hope as Self - Co-Host, 47th Academy Awards (archive footage)
Ted Kennedy as Self - Pro-Busing Senator (archive footage)
Richard Nixon as Self - 37th President of the United States (archive footage)
Dan Rather as Self - Host, CBS Evening News (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan as Self - Former Governor of California (archive footage)
Geraldo Rivera as Self - Host, Good Night America (archive footage)
Bert Schneider as Self - Producer, Hearts and Minds (archive footage)
Howard K. Smith as Self - Host, ABC Evening News (archive footage)
Mario Van Peebles as Self - Director, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (archive footage)
Sylvester Stallone as Self/Rocky/Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (archive footage)
Steven Spielberg as Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage)
Jack Nicholson as Self (The Passenger-archive footage)
Roman Polanski as Self - Director of Chinatown (archive footage)
Sidney Lumet as Self - Director of Dog day afternoon (archive footage)
Charles Bronson as Self - Actor in Death Wish (archive footage)
Richard Pryor as Self (archive footage)
Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik (archive footage)
Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle (archive footage)
Gene Hackman as Self (The Conversation/The Poseidon Adventure- archive footage)
Betty Ford as Self (archive footage)
Pam Grier as Self (archive footage)
Faye Dunaway as Self (Network- archive footage)
Louise Fletcher as Self (archive footage- One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest Nurse Ratched)
John Wayne as Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon as Self (archive footage)
Gerald Ford as Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman as Self (The Towering Inferno-archive footage)
David Byrne as Self (archive footage)
Peter Finch as Self (archive footage- Howard Beale Network)
Donald Pleasence as Self (archive footage- Escape to Witch Mountain)
Richard Pryor as Self (archive photo/footage)
Richard Roundtree as Self (Shaft- archive footage)
Chevy Chase as Self (Saturday Night Live- archive footage)
Bert Schneider as Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope as Self (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra as Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage/photo)
Robert F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr. as Self (archive photo)
Frank Church as Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler as Self (archive photo)
Johnny Carson as Self (archive footage)
Ted Kennedy as Self (archive footage)
Burt Reynolds as Self (archive footage)
Nancy Reagan as Self (archive footage)
Irwin Winkler as Self (archive footage)
Sylvester Stallone as Self (archive footage)