Explained

Barack Obama

Self (archive footage)

Estelle Caswell

Narrator (voice)

Joe Biden

Self (archive footage)

Maria Bello

Narrator (voice)

Jay-Z

Self (archive footage)

Samira Wiley

Narrator (voice)

George H. W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

Donald Trump

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Putin

Self (archive footage)

Joss Fong

Narrator (voice)

Christian Slater

Narrator (voice)

LeVar Burton

Narrator (voice)

Nick Kroll

Narrator (voice)

Aasif Mandvi

Narrator (voice)

Kevin Smith

Narrator (voice)

Yara Shahidi

Narrator (voice)

Kristen Bell

Narrator (voice)

Rachel Bloom

Narrator (voice)

Jerry Springer

Narrator (voice)

Rachel McAdams

Narrator (voice)

Kyle MacLachlan

Narrator (voice)

Carly Rae Jepsen

Narrator (voice)

Tablo

Self

Jimin

Self (archive footage)

Suga

Self (archive footage)

V

Self (archive footage)

Jin

Self (archive footage)

RM

Self (archive footage)

Jung Kook

Self (archive footage)

j-hope

Self (archive footage)

Park Chung-hee

Self (archive footage)

Yang Hyun-suk

Self (archive footage)

DJ Tukutz

Self

Mithra Jin

Self

Lee Soo-man

Self (archive footage)

Kim Dae-jung

Self (archive footage)

Psy

Self (archive footage)

Hillary Clinton

Self

Elizabeth Warren

Self (archive footage)

Kirsten Gillibrand

Self (archive footage)

Sandra Day O'Connor

Self (archive footage)

Anderson Cooper

Self (archive footage)

Hilary Swank

Narrator (voice)

Maggie Siff

Narrator (voice)

Abigail Disney

Self

Michael Jordan

Self (archive footage)

Mark Cuban

Self

LaKeith Stanfield

Narrator (voice)

J.K. Simmons

Narrator (voice)

Bill Gates

Self

Vincent Kartheiser

Narrator (voice)

Natasha Lyonne

Narrator (voice)

Cleo Abram

Narrator (voice)

Warren Buffett

Self (archive footage)

John D. Rockefeller

Self (archive footage)

John Maynard Keynes

Self (archive footage)

Cory Booker

Self - U.S. Senator

James Baldwin

Self (archive footage)

Shirley Chisholm

Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

Self (archive footage)

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Self (archive footage)

Stephen Colbert

Self (archive footage)

Alan Greenspan

Self (archive footage)

Jesse Jackson

Self (archive footage)

Robert L. Johnson

Self - First Black Billionaire (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Hattie McDaniel

Self - First Black Oscar Winner (archive footage)

Michelle Obama

Self - First Black First Lady (archive footage)

Jesse Owens

Self - Four-Time Olympic Gold Medalist (archive footage)

Colin Powell

Self - First Black Secretary of State (archive footage)

Jackie Robinson

Self - First Black MLB Player (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

George Stephanopoulos

Self (archive footage)

Francis Collins

Self (archive footage)

Don Lemon

Self (archive footage)

Keith Morrison

Self (archive footage)

Bernie Sanders

Self

Keri Russell

Narrator (voice)

John Waters

Narrator (voice)

Karlie Kloss

Narrator (voice)

Aya Cash

Narrator (voice)

Adolf Eichmann

Self (archive footage)

Big Boi

Self (archive footage)

Jane Fonda

Self (archive footage)

Noam Chomsky

Self (archive footage)

Mike Wallace

Self (archive footage)

Rosario Dawson

Narrator (voice)

Fidel Castro

Self (archive footage)

George W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Nelson Mandela

Self (archive footage)

Ann Coulter

Self (archive footage)

Peter Jennings

Self (archive footage)

Dan Rather

Self (archive footage)

Tom Brokaw

Self (archive footage)

Ethan Hawke

Narrator (voice)

Boris Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Jake Gyllenhaal

Narrator (voice)

Rainn Wilson

Narrator (voice)

Sophie Okonedo

Narrator (voice)

Keke Palmer

Narrator (voice)

Héctor Elizondo

Narrator (voice)

Kim Cattrall

Narrator (voice)

Kelly Rowland

Narrator (voice)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Narrator (voice)

Connie Britton

Narrator (voice)

Ruth Negga

Narrator (voice)

Doja Cat

Self (archive footage)

Moon Jae-in

Self (archive footage)

Xi Jinping

Self (archive footage)

Justin Trudeau

Self (archive footage)

Ted Cruz

Self (archive footage)

Michael Bloomberg

Self (archive footage)

Seo Tai-ji

Self (archive footage)

Jim Jones

Self (archive footage)

Catherine Oxenberg

Self - Mother of NXIVM Cult Member

Mark Zuckerberg

Self (archive footage)

Muhammad Ali

Self (archive footage)

Doug E. Fresh

Self (archive footage)

Gigi Hadid

Self (archive footage)

Leo J. Ryan

Self (archive footage)

Jackie Speier

Self