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