Cast 156
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage) (4 episodes)
Estelle Caswell
Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)
Joe Biden
Self (archive footage) (3 episodes)
Maria Bello
Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
Jay-Z
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)Self (voice) (1 episode)
Samira Wiley
Narrator (voice) (2 episodes)
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
Joss Fong
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Christian Slater
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
LeVar Burton
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Nick Kroll
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Aasif Mandvi
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Kevin Smith
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Coleman Lowndes
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Yara Shahidi
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Kristen Bell
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Rachel Bloom
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Jerry Springer
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Rachel McAdams
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Kyle MacLachlan
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Carly Rae Jepsen
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Tablo
Self (1 episode)
Jimin
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Suga
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
V
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Jin
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
RM
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Jung Kook
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
j-hope
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Park Chung-hee
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Yang Hyun-suk
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
DJ Tukutz
Self (1 episode)
Mithra Jin
Self (1 episode)
Lee Soo-man
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Kim Dae-jung
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Psy
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Hillary Clinton
Self (1 episode)
Valentine Rugwabiza
Self (1 episode)
Elizabeth Warren
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Kirsten Gillibrand
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Sandra Day O'Connor
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Anderson Cooper
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Hilary Swank
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Maggie Siff
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Abigail Disney
Self (1 episode)
Michael Jordan
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Mark Cuban
Self (1 episode)
LaKeith Stanfield
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
J.K. Simmons
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Bill Gates
Self (1 episode)
Vincent Kartheiser
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Natasha Lyonne
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Cleo Abram
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Andrew Carnegie
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Warren Buffett
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
John D. Rockefeller
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
John Maynard Keynes
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Mehrsa Baradaran
Self - Author (1 episode)
Cory Booker
Self - U.S. Senator (1 episode)
Thomas Shapiro
Self - Sociologist (1 episode)
Beth Jacobson
Self - Foreclosure Specialist (1 episode)
James Baldwin
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Edward A. Bouchet
Self - First Black Ph.D Recipient (archive footage) (1 episode)
Shirley Chisholm
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Stephen Colbert
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Bessie Coleman
Self - First Black Licensed Pilot (archive footage) (1 episode)
Alan Greenspan
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Jesse Jackson
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Robert L. Johnson
Self - First Black Billionaire (archive footage) (1 episode)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Dennis Kucinich
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Abraham Lincoln
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Alain Leroy Locke
Self - First Black Rhodes Scholar (archive footage) (1 episode)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Thurgood Marshall
Self - First Black Supreme Court Justice (archive footage) (1 episode)
Hattie McDaniel
Self - First Black Oscar Winner (archive footage) (1 episode)
Michelle Obama
Self - First Black First Lady (archive footage) (1 episode)
Jesse Owens
Self - Four-Time Olympic Gold Medalist (archive footage) (1 episode)
Colin Powell
Self - First Black Secretary of State (archive footage) (1 episode)
Joseph Rainey
Self - First Black Congressperson (archive footage) (1 episode)
Hiram Revels
Self - First Black Senator (archive footage) (1 episode)
Jackie Robinson
Self - First Black MLB Player (archive footage) (1 episode)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Rick Santelli
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
William Tecumseh Sherman
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Ruth Simmons
Self - First Black Ivy League President (archive footage) (1 episode)
Edwin M. Stanton
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
George Stephanopoulos
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Brian Williams
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Neville Sanjana
Self - Biologist (1 episode)
Jennifer Doudna
Self - CRISPR Pioneer (1 episode)
John Evans
Self - Sociologist (1 episode)
Hank Greely
Self - Law Professor (1 episode)
Rebecca Cokley
Self - Disability Rights Activist (1 episode)
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Francis Collins
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Dick Costolo
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Don Lemon
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Keith Morrison
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Reena Ninan
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Bernie Sanders
Self (1 episode)
John Franklin Stephens
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Keri Russell
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
John Waters
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Karlie Kloss
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Aya Cash
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Adolf Eichmann
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Big Boi
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Jane Fonda
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Noam Chomsky
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Mike Wallace
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Rosario Dawson
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Nelson Mandela
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Ann Coulter
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Peter Jennings
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Dan Rather
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Tom Brokaw
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Ethan Hawke
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Boris Johnson
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Jake Gyllenhaal
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Rainn Wilson
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Sophie Okonedo
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Keke Palmer
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Héctor Elizondo
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Kim Cattrall
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Kelly Rowland
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Connie Britton
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Ruth Negga
Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
Doja Cat
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Moon Jae-in
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Xi Jinping
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Justin Trudeau
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Ted Cruz
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Michael Bloomberg
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Seo Tai-ji
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Primary
Self (1 episode)
Jim Jones
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Catherine Oxenberg
Self - Mother of NXIVM Cult Member (1 episode)
Mark Zuckerberg
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Muhammad Ali
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Doug E. Fresh
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Gigi Hadid
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Leo J. Ryan
Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
Jackie Speier
Self (1 episode)
Directing 1
Emily Kassie
Director (1 episode)
Production 5
Joe Posner
Executive Producer (20 episodes)
Ezra Klein
Executive Producer (20 episodes)
Claire Gordon
Executive Producer (20 episodes)
Cleo Abram
Producer (2 episodes)
Emily Kassie
Producer (1 episode)