Director
John Akomfrah
DIRECTOR
Stars (in credits order)
Denzel Washington
Narratorvoice
Martin Luther King
SelfarchiveFootage
Clarence B. Jones
Self - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s political advisor
Andrew Young
Taylor Branch
Self - historian, non-fiction author
Eugene 'Bull' Connor
Self - commissioner of public safety, Birmingham, AlabamaarchiveFootage
Clayborne Carson
Self - historian
Rutha Harris
Self - Freedom Singers (1962-1965)
Roger Mudd
Self - news reporter, CBS (1961-1980)
Hunter Pitts O'Dell
Self - National Maritime Union (1945-1960)
Rachelle Horowitz
Self - organizer, March on Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harry Belafonte
Self
A. Philip Randolph
Bayard Rustin
John F. Kennedy
Harris Wofford
Self - John F. Kennedy administration's civil rights expert
George Wallace
Self - governor of AlabamaarchiveFootage
Norman Hill
Robert F. Kennedy
John Lewis
Self - chairman of the SNCC (1963-1966)
David Garrow
J. Edgar Hoover
Joyce Ladner
Tony Curtis
Marlon Brando
Charlton Heston
Julian Bond
Berl Bernhard
Self - director, United States Commission on Civil Rights
Fatima Cortez-Todd
Self - participant, March on Washington
Frank Silvera
James Garner
Joan Baez
Peter Yarrow
Peter Paul & Mary
ThemselvesarchiveFootage
Marian Anderson
Odetta
The Freedom Singers
Patrick O'Boyle
Bob Dylan
Walter Reuther
Self - labor union leader, United Automobile WorkersarchiveFootage
Burt Lancaster
Sidney Poitier
Mahalia Jackson
Oprah Winfrey
Diahann Carroll
Lyndon B. Johnson
Roy Wilkins