Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Self

Nas

Self (archive footage)

Edward R. Marrow

Self- Voice

Danny Baker

Self (voice) (archive sound)

George Jones

Self (archive footage)

Mike Douglas

Self (voice) (archive sound)

Jelly Roll Morton

Self (archive footage)

James Baldwin

Self (archive footage)

Jimi Hendrix

Self (archive footage)

Dick Cavett

Self (archive footage)

Tommy Rockwell

Self (archive footage)

Ray Charles

Self

Wynton Marsalis

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)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self - Glenn Miller (archive footage)

James Stewart

Self - C.K Dexter-Haven (archive footage)

Bing Crosby

Self (archive footage)

Barbra Streisand

Self (voice) (archive sound)

Miles Davis

Self (voice) (archive sound)

Slim Thompson

Self (archive footage)

Ossie Davis

Self (archive footage)

Sammy Davis Jr.

Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

Self (voice) (archive sound)

Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage)

Orson Welles

Self (voice) (archive sound)

Archie Shepp

Self (voice) (archive sound)

Count Basie

Self (voice) (archive sound)

Lucille Armstrong

Self

Dan Morganstern

Self (voice) (archive sound)

Steve Allen

Executive Producer

Ron Howard

Executive Producer

Brian Grazer

Music

Terence Blanchard

Producer

Sara Bernstein

Director

Sacha Jenkins

Producer

Sacha Jenkins

Producer

Justin Wilkes

Executive Producer

David Blackman

Editor

Jason Pollard

Editor

Alma Herrera Pazmino

Director of Photography

Ed Lachman

Producer

Julie Anderson

Executive Producer

Michele Anthony