Director
Ava DuVernay
DIRECTOR
Stars (in credits order)
Melina Abdullah
Self - Chair, Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles
Michelle Alexander
Self - Educator and Author, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Cory Booker
Self - U.S. Senator (D) New Jersey
Dolores Canales
Self - Formerly Incarcerated Activist
Gina Clayton
Self - Attorney and Founder, Essie Justice Group
Jelani Cobb
Self - Professor of African-American Studies, University of Connecticut
Malkia Cyril
Self - Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice
Angela Davis
Self - Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz
Craig DeRoche
David Dinkins
Self - 106th Mayor of New York City (D)
Baz Dreisinger
Self - Educator and Author, Incarceration Nations
Kevin Gannon
Self - Professor of History, Grandview University
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Self - Professor of History, Harvard University
Marie Gottschalk
Self - Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Newt Gingrich
Self - 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives, 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Lisa Graves
Self - Executive Director, Center for Media and Democracy
Cory Greene
John Hagan
Self - Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University
Michael Hough
Self - Maryland State Senator (R), American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
Van Jones
Self - Founder, #CUT50
David Keene
Self - Chairman 1984 - 2011, American Conservative Union
James Kilgore
Self - Formerly Incarcerated Author, Understanding Mass Incarceration
Glenn E. Martin
Marc Mauer
Self - Executive Director, Sentencing Project
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Self - Professor of History, Race and Public Policy, Harvard University
Pat Nolan
Grover Norquist
Self - Board Member, Americans for Tax Reform
Dorsey Nunn
Self - Executive Director, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Liza Jessie Peterson
Self - Incarceration Activist and Educator
Charles Rangel
Self - Congressman (D), New York 13th District
Kyung-Ji Rhee
Self - Center for Nu Leadership on Urban Solutions
Rashad Robinson
Self - Color for Change
Shaka Senghor
Bob Sloan
Self - Independent Investigative Journalist
Deborah Small
Self - Attorney and Founder, Break the Chains
Bryan Stevenson
Self - Attorney and Author
Ken Thompson
Self - District Attorney - Brooklyn, New York
Nicholas Turner
Self - President, Vera Institute of Justice
Daniel Wagner
Self - Investigative Reporter, Buzzfeed
Joe Atkins
Self - Minnesota (DFL) (archiveFootage)
Lee Atwater
Self - Campaign Strategist to Ronald Reagan (archiveFootage)
Tom Brokaw
Self - Host, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw (archiveFootage)
Kalief Browder
Self - Inmate Held Without Trial, 2010 - 2013 (archiveFootage)
Carolyn Bryant
Self - Wife of Roy Bryant (archiveFootage)
Roy Bryant
Self - Acquitted of Lynching Emmett Till (archiveFootage)
George Bush
Self - 41st President of the United States (archiveFootage)
George W. Bush
Self - 43rd President of the United States (archiveFootage)
Jimmy Carter
Self - 39th President of the United States (archiveFootage)
Philando Castile
Self - Murdered by Police (archiveFootage)
Bill Clinton
Self - 42nd President of the United States (archiveFootage)
Hillary Clinton
Self - 2016 Democratic Presidential Candidate (archiveFootage)
Stephen Colbert
Self - Host, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (archiveFootage)
Walter Cronkite
Self - Host, CBS Evening News (archiveFootage)
Richard Allen Davis
Self - Convicted Murderer (archiveFootage)
Bob Dole
Self - Former U.S. Senator (R-KS) (archiveFootage)
Sam DuBose
Michael Dukakis
Self - 1988 Democratic Presidential Candidate (archiveFootage)
John Ehrlichman
Self - Chief Domestic Advisor to Richard Nixon (archiveFootage)
Gerald Ford
Self - 38th President of the United States (archiveFootage)
Eric Garner
Self (archiveFootage)
Steve Gottwalt
Self - Minnesota (R) (archiveFootage)
Oscar Grant
Freddie Gray
Fred Hampton
Self - Chairman, Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (archiveFootage)
Eric Courtney Harris
Jason Harrison
Thom Hartmann
Self - Progressive Political Commentator (archiveFootage)
Marc Lamont Hill
Self - Huffington Post Live (archiveFootage)
Willie Horton
Peter Jennings
Self - Host, ABC Nightly News with Peter Jennings (archiveFootage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self - 36th President of the United States (archiveFootage)
Sharanda Jones
Self - Received Mandatory Minimum Sentence of Life in Prison on First Offense (archiveFootage)
Martin Luther King
Self - Civil Rights Leader (archiveFootage)
Polly Hannah Klaas
Self - Murder Victim (archiveFootage)
Ed Koch
Self - 105th Mayor of New York City (archiveFootage)
Rachel Maddow
Self - Host, The Rachel Maddow Show (archiveFootage)
Malcolm X
Trayvon Martin
Laquan McDonald
Zebulon Miletsky
Self - Author, Before Busing: Boston's Long Freedom Movement in the 'Cradle of Liberty'
Mamie Till Mobley
Self - Mother of Emmett Till (archiveFootage)
Richard Nixon
Self - 37th President of the United States (archiveFootage)
Barack Obama
Self - 44th President of the United States (archiveFootage)
John Oliver
Self - Host, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (archiveFootage)
Rick Perry
Self - Governor of Texas 2000 - 2015 (R) (archiveFootage)
Dan Rather
Self - Host, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather (archiveFootage)
Nancy Reagan
Self - Former First Lady (archiveFootage)
Ronald Reagan
Self - 40th President of the United States (archiveFootage)
Harry Reasoner
Self - Journalist, 60 Minutes (archiveFootage)
Diamond Reynolds
Self - Partner Murdered by Police (archiveFootage)
Tamir E. Rice
Ronnie C. Rouse
Self - Film and Music Producer
Bernie Sanders
Self - U.S. Senator (I-VT) (archiveFootage)
Assata Shakur
Self - Member of Black Panther Party & Black Liberation Army (archiveFootage)
Emmett Till
Self - Victim of Lynching (archiveFootage)
Donald Trump
Self - New York City Real Estate Businessman (archiveFootage)
Jerry Watson
Self - Chief Legal Counsel, American Bail Coalition (archiveFootage)
Paul Weyrich
Self - Co-Founder, ALEC (archiveFootage)
Larry Wilmore
Self - Host, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (archiveFootage)
George Zimmerman