Casts

Daniel Ellsberg

Self (Narraror)

Patricia Ellsberg

Self

John Dean

Self - White House Counsel to President Nixon

Howard Zinn

Self - Historian

Peter Arnett

Self - Associated Press Correspondent (archive footage)

Ben Bagdikian

Self - Editor, Washington Post

Ann Beeson

Self - Associate Legal Director, ACLU

Robert Ellsberg

Self - Daniel's Son

Richard Falk

Self - Professor of International Law

Max Frankel

Self - Washington Bureau Chief, New York Times

J. William Fulbright

Self - Chair Foreign Relations Committee (archive footage)

James Goodale

Self - General Counsel, New York Times

Mike Gravel

Self - Senator (D-Alaska)

Morton Halperin

Self - Supervisor, Vietnam War Study (as Mort Halperin)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self - President (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson)

Randy Kehler

Self - Draft Resister

Bud Krogh

Self - Director, 'Plumbers' Unit (as Egil Krogh)

Pete McCloskey

Self - Representative, California

Robert McNamara

Self (archive footage)

Wayne Morse

Self - Senator, Oregon (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self - President (archive footage)

Thomas Oliphant

Self - Reporter, Boston Globe (as Tom Oliphant)

Dan Rather

Self - Reporter (archive footage)

Tony Russo

Self - RAND Analyst

Thomas Schelling

Self - RAND Analyst / Nobel Laureate

Hedrick Smith

Self - Reporter, New York Times

Janaki Tschannerl

Self - Peace Activist

Leonard Weinglass

Self - Russo Defense Attorney

Crews

Rick Goldsmith

Writer

Michael Chandler

Writer

Judith Ehrlich

Director

Lawrence Lerew

Writer

Jorge Trelles

Production Manager

Dan Krauss

Director of Photography

Michael Chandler

Editor

Lawrence Lerew

Editor

Blake Leyh

Original Music Composer

Rick Goldsmith

Editor

Judith Ehrlich

Writer

Rick Goldsmith

Director

Vicente Franco

Director of Photography