Full Cast & Crew
Top Billed Cast
Full Cast
Count Basie
Self (voice) (archive sound)
Lucille Armstrong
Self (voice) (archive sound)
Dan Morganstern
Self
Steve Allen
Self (voice) (archive sound)
Edward R. Marrow
Self (archive footage)
Danny Baker
Self- Voice
George Jones
Self (voice) (archive sound)
Mike Douglas
Self (archive footage)
Jelly Roll Morton
Self (voice) (archive sound)
James Baldwin
Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix
Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett
Self (archive footage)
Tommy Rockwell
Self (archive footage)
Ray Charles
Self (archive footage)
Sam Cooke
Self (archive footage)
James Brown
Self (archive footage)
John Lennon
Self (archive footage)
Paul McCartney
Self (archive footage)
George Harrison
Self (archive footage)
Ringo Starr
Self (archive footage)
Leonard Bernstein
Self (archive footage)
Al Capone
Self (archive footage)
Ed Sullivan
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart
Self - Glenn Miller (archive footage)
Bing Crosby
Self - C.K Dexter-Haven (archive footage)
Barbra Streisand
Self (archive footage)
Miles Davis
Self (voice) (archive sound)
Slim Thompson
Self (voice) (archive sound)
Ossie Davis
Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite
Self (voice) (archive sound)
Crew
Sacha Jenkins
Director
Sara Bernstein
Producer
Justin Wilkes
Producer
Sacha Jenkins
Producer
Julie Anderson
Producer
Brian Grazer
Executive Producer
Ron Howard
Executive Producer
Michele Anthony
Executive Producer
David Blackman
Executive Producer
Jason Pollard
Editor
Alma Herrera Pazmino
Editor
Terence Blanchard
Music
Edward Lachman
Director of Photography