Directed by
| Tessa Coombs | ||
Cast (in credits order)
| Kenneth Branagh | ... | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
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Doris Bootman | ... | Self |
| Harold Brown | ... | Self | |
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Tom Denchy | ... | Self |
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Nikolai Detinov | ... | Self (as Lt. Gen. Nikolai Detinov) |
| Anatoli Dobrynin | ... | Self (as Anatoly Dobrynin) | |
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Russell Dougherty | ... | Self (as Gen. Russell Dougherty) |
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Antonia Flores | ... | Self |
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Ray Hersey | ... | Self |
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William Kaufmann | ... | Self |
| John F. Kennedy | ... | Self (archive footage) (as President John F. Kennedy) | |
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Valentin Larionov | ... | Self (as Gen. Valentin Larionov) |
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William Lee | ... | Self |
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John McKone | ... | Self (as Col. John McKone) |
| Robert McNamara | ... | Self | |
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Mikhail Mokrinski | ... | Self (as Gen. Mikhail Mokrinski) |
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Ed Moran | ... | Self |
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Simo Orts | ... | Self |
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Nikolai Ousenko | ... | Self (as Admiral Nikolai Ousenko) |
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Vasili Poliakov | ... | Self |
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Ovidio Pugnale | ... | Self (as Col. Ovidio Pugnale) |
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Helmut Sonnenfeldt | ... | Self |
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Maria Stepanova | ... | Self |
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Yuri Votintsev | ... | Self (as Col. Gen. Yuri Votintsev) |
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Joe Williams | ... | Self (as Vice Admiral 'Jumping' Joe Williams) |
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Herbert York | ... | Self |
| Leonid Brezhnev | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
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Angier Biddle Duke | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Jacqueline Kennedy | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Nikita Khrushchev | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Henry Kissinger | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Aleksey Kosygin | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Richard Nixon | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
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Thomas S. Power | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Produced by
| Jody Gottlieb | ... | line producer |
| Isobel Hinshelwood | ... | associate producer |
| Jeremy Isaacs | ... | executive producer |
| Richard Melman | ... | producer |
| Pat Mitchell | ... | executive producer |
| Martin Smith | ... | series producer |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Ian Murray | ... | sparks rigger (as Ian Vincent Murray) |
Additional Crew
| Milica Budimir | ... | production coordinator |
| Miriam Walsh | ... | archive research |
