| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 David Deutsch | Crew | Directing | Director | 2 |
 John Adams | Crew | Sound | Music Supervisor | 2 |
Michael Rios | Crew | Production | Production Assistant | 1 |
 Jim Lehrer | Crew | Creator | Creator | |
 Robert MacNeil | Crew | Creator | Creator | |
Harry Zahn | Crew | Production | Production Assistant | 1 |
Matt Loffman | Crew | Production | Producer | 1 |
Hamada Hanoura | Crew | Editing | Editor | 1 |
Priscilla Shanks | Crew | Crew | Thanks | 1 |
Sara Just | Crew | Production | Executive Producer | 262 |
Wayne Palmer | Crew | Camera | Camera Operator | 1 |
Robert Wightman | Crew | Art | Set Designer | 2 |
Jim Eddins | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
Richard Lopez | Crew | Art | Graphic Designer | 2 |
John W. Kinard Jr. | Crew | Lighting | Lighting Director | 1 |
Cheryl Cruver | Crew | Crew | Administrative Assistant | 1 |
Ray Weiss | Crew | Production | Executive Producer | 2 |
Philip Blumberg | Crew | Production | Production Assistant | 2 |
Michael Saltz | Crew | Production | Production Manager | 2 |
Martin L. Gross | Crew | Camera | Camera Operator | 1 |
Bill Kockler | Crew | Camera | Camera Operator | 1 |
Duke Struck | Crew | Directing | Director | 7 |
William C. Fort | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Makeup Artist | 1 |
John Anthes | Crew | Art | Graphic Designer | 2 |
Linda Winslow | Crew | Production | Producer | 2 |
Dianne Faye | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Makeup Artist | 1 |
Walter Edel | Crew | Camera | Camera Operator | 1 |
John Faher | Crew | Camera | Camera Operator | 1 |
Janis Tochen | Crew | Production | Production Coordinator | 2 |
Linda Buatti | Crew | Production | Production Secretary | 2 |
Ryan Connelly Holmes | Crew | Production | Production Assistant | 1 |
Mary Lawrence | Crew | Directing | Director | 1 |
Alexis Cox | Crew | Production | Producer | 1 |
 Carl Sagan | Cast | Actor | Self - Cosmos (archive footage) | 1 |
 Dick Clark | Cast | Actor | Self - Senator, Democrat Iowa | 1 |
 Gerald Ford | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
 Gwen Ifill | Cast | Actress | Self - Anchor | 758 |
Jimmy Breslin | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Joe Flaherty | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 John Yang | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Judy Woodruff | Cast | Actress | Self - Anchor | 2331 |
 Orrin Hatch | Cast | Self (archive footage) | 1 | |
 Pauline Kael | Cast | Actress | Self - Movie Critic, The New Yorker | 1 |
 Woody Allen | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Ali Khamenei | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
David Brooks | Cast | Self | 2 | |
 Rageh Omaar | Cast | Actor | Self - Independent Television News | 1 |
Jeffrey Brown | Cast | Actor | Self | 2 |
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
 Norman Mailer | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
Jim Lehrer | Cast | Actor | Self - Anchor | 13 |
Robert MacNeil | Cast | Actor | Self - Anchor | 13 |
Nsikan Akpan | Cast | Self | 1 | |
 Mark Russell | Cast | Actor | Self | 1 |
 Kim Jong-un | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
Craig Silverman | Cast | Self - Buzzfeed News | 1 | |
I. F. Stone | Cast | Self - Journalist | 1 | |
 Nikki Haley | Cast | Actress | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
Malcolm Brabant | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Peter Lisagor | Cast | Self - Political Correspondent | 1 | |
 Hassan Rouhani | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
 Annette Gordon-Reed | Cast | Actress | Self | 1 |
Karine Jean-Pierre | Cast | Actress | Self | 1 |
Matt Schlapp | Cast | Self | 2 | |
 Thomas Erdbrink | Cast | Actor | Self - The New York Times | 1 |
Wendy Kamaiko | Cast | Self - Unemployed Teacher | 1 | |
Charles E. Boddy | Cast | Self - Unemployed Clerical Worker | 1 | |
Abraham J. Briloff | Cast | Self - Professor City University of New York | 1 | |
Jim Wright | Cast | Self - Representative, Democrat Texas | 1 | |
Jeremias Chitunda | Cast | Self - U.N.I.T.A. | 1 | |
Bob Eckhardt | Cast | Self - Representative, Democrat Texas | 1 | |
F. Clifton White | Cast | Self - Political Consultant | 1 | |
Elisio Figueirdeo | Cast | Self - M.P.L.A. | 1 | |
 John B. Anderson | Cast | Actor | Self - Representative, Republican Illinois | 1 |
Lloyd Garrison | Cast | Self - Journalist | 1 | |
Charles Goodell | Cast | Self - Chairman Presidential Clemency Board | 1 | |
Lawrence Burch | Cast | Self - Vice President Potato Chip Institute | 1 | |
Amitai Etzioni | Cast | Self - Professor Columbia University | 1 | |
Leslie H. Gelb | Cast | Self - The New York Times | 1 | |
Burns Roper | Cast | Self - President, The Roper Organization | 1 | |
Barry Lynn | Cast | Self - United Church of Christ | 1 | |
Gerry Condon | Cast | Self - Former Green Beret | 1 | |
Louise Ransom | Cast | Goldstar Mother | 1 | |
Robert Kastenmeier | Cast | Self - Democrat Wisconsin | 1 | |
John C. Burton | Cast | Self - Securities & Exchange Committee | 1 | |
Sal Melluso | Cast | Self - Unemployed Policeman | 1 | |
Robert Lippold | Cast | Self - Kitty Clover Potato Chips | 1 | |
William S. Kanaga | Cast | Self - Arthur, Young & Company | 1 | |
Tamara Keith | Cast | Self - NPR | 1 | |
Farah Gulistani | Cast | Self - Mural Painter | 1 | |
Rahmatullah Rahmat | Cast | Self - Halo Trust | 1 | |
William Brangham | Cast | Self | 1 | |
 Amy Walter | Cast | Actress | Self | 2 |
 Lisa Desjardins | Cast | Actress | Self | 2 |
Noorzia | Cast | Self - Landmine Survivor | 1 | |
Catherine Miller | Cast | Self - PhD Student | 1 | |
Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani | Cast | Self (archive footage) | 1 | |
Patrick Fruchet | Cast | Self - United Nations Mine Action Service | 1 | |
George Brown | Cast | Self - East Tennessee State University (archive footage) | 1 | |
Karim Sadjadpour | Cast | Self - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | 1 | |
Jennifer Glasse | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Rahmatullah | Cast | Self - Noorzia's Father | 1 | |
Abbas Milani | Cast | Self - Stanford University | 1 | |
Mahpikay Siddiqi | Cast | Self - Kabul Orthopedic Organization | 1 | |
Cho Myoung-Gyon | Cast | Self (archive footage) | 1 | |
Reid Wilson | Cast | Self - The Hill | 1 | |
Paulo Lozano | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Stan Collender | Cast | Self - Georgetown University | 1 | |
Brynn Tannehill | Cast | Self (archive footage) | 1 | |
Frank Jannuzi | Cast | Self - Former State Department Official | 1 | |
Gary Anderson | Cast | Self - U.S. Marine Corps (archive footage) | 1 | |
Blake Dremann | Cast | Self (archive footage) | 1 | |
Alyson Klein | Cast | Self - Education Week | 1 | |
Tove Fall | Cast | Self - Uppsala University | 1 | |
Klaus Hansen | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Tina Hogan | Cast | Self - Hammel Neuro Center | 1 | |
Rupi Kaur | Cast | Actress | Self - Poet | 1 |
Rickie Lee | Cast | Self | 1 | |
Betsy DeVos | Cast | Self (archive footage) | 1 | |
Anya Kamanetz | Cast | Self - NPR | 1 | |
 Margaret Sullivan | Cast | Actress | Self - The Washington Post | 1 |
Galina Plesner | Cast | Self - Tryg Foundation | 1 | |
Kim Hasselstrom | Cast | Self | 1 | |
 Amna Nawaz | Cast | Actress | Self - Anchor | 523 |
 Geoff Bennett | Cast | Actor | Self - Anchor | 523 |
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