Explained

Barack Obama

Self (archive footage)

Ages 56-60

Estelle Caswell

Narrator (voice)

Joe Biden

Self (archive footage)

Ages 75-78

Maria Bello

Narrator (voice)

Ages 51-54

JAŸ-Z

Self (archive footage)

Ages 48-51

Samira Wiley

Narrator (voice)

Ages 31-34

George H. W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

Ages 93-97

Donald Trump

Self (archive footage)

Ages 71-75

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Ages 105-108

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Ages 109-113

Vladimir Putin

Self (archive footage)

Ages 65-69

Joss Fong

Narrator (voice)

Christian Slater

Narrator (voice)

Ages 48-52

LeVar Burton

Narrator (voice)

Ages 61-64

Nick Kroll

Narrator (voice)

Ages 39-43

Aasif Mandvi

Narrator (voice)

Ages 52-55

Kevin Smith

Narrator (voice)

Ages 47-51

Coleman Lowndes

Narrator (voice)

Yara Shahidi

Narrator (voice)

Ages 18-21

Kristen Bell

Narrator (voice)

Ages 37-41

Rachel Bloom

Narrator (voice)

Ages 31-34

Jerry Springer

Narrator (voice)

Ages 74-77

Rachel McAdams

Narrator (voice)

Ages 39-42

Kyle MacLachlan

Narrator (voice)

Ages 59-62

Carly Rae Jepsen

Narrator (voice)

Ages 32-35

Tablo

Self

Ages 37-41

Jimin

Self (archive footage)

Ages 22-26

Suga

Self (archive footage)

Ages 25-28

V

Self (archive footage)

Ages 22-25

Jin

Self (archive footage)

Ages 25-28

RM

Self (archive footage)

Ages 23-27

Jung Kook

Self (archive footage)

Ages 20-24

j-hope

Self (archive footage)

Ages 24-27

Park Chung-hee

Self (archive footage)

Ages 100-103

Yang Hyun-suk

Self (archive footage)

Ages 48-51

DJ Tukutz

Self

Ages 36-39

Mithra Jin

Self

Ages 35-38

Lee Soo-man

Self (archive footage)

Ages 65-69

Kim Dae-jung

Self (archive footage)

Ages 94-97

PSY

Self (archive footage)

Ages 40-43

Hillary Clinton

Self

Ages 70-73

Valentine Rugwabiza

Self

Elizabeth Warren

Self (archive footage)

Ages 68-72

Kirsten Gillibrand

Self (archive footage)

Ages 51-54

Sandra Day O'Connor

Self (archive footage)

Ages 88-91

Anderson Cooper

Self (archive footage)

Ages 50-54

Hilary Swank

Narrator (voice)

Ages 43-47

Maggie Siff

Narrator (voice)

Ages 43-47

Abigail Disney

Self

Ages 58-61

Michael Jordan

Self (archive footage)

Ages 55-58

Mark Cuban

Self

Ages 59-63

LaKeith Stanfield

Narrator (voice)

Ages 26-30

J.K. Simmons

Narrator (voice)

Ages 63-66

Bill Gates

Self

Ages 62-65

Vincent Kartheiser

Narrator (voice)

Ages 39-42

Natasha Lyonne

Narrator (voice)

Ages 39-42

Cleo Abram

Narrator (voice)

Ages 25-28

Andrew Carnegie

Self (archive footage)

Ages 182-185

Warren Buffett

Self (archive footage)

Ages 88-91

John D. Rockefeller

Self (archive footage)

Ages 178-182

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Self (archive footage)

John Maynard Keynes

Self (archive footage)

Mehrsa Baradaran

Self - Author

Cory Booker

Self - U.S. Senator

Ages 49-52

Thomas Shapiro

Self - Sociologist

Beth Jacobson

Self - Foreclosure Specialist

James Baldwin

Self (archive footage)

Ages 93-97

Edward A. Bouchet

Self - First Black Ph.D Recipient (archive footage)

Shirley Chisholm

Self (archive footage)

Ages 93-96

Bill Clinton

Self (archive footage)

Ages 71-75

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Self (archive footage)

Ages 42-46

Stephen Colbert

Self (archive footage)

Ages 54-57

Bessie Coleman

Self - First Black Licensed Pilot (archive footage)

Alan Greenspan

Self (archive footage)

Ages 92-95

Jesse Jackson

Self (archive footage)

Ages 76-80

Robert L. Johnson

Self - First Black Billionaire (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Ages 89-92

Dennis Kucinich

Self (archive footage)

Abraham Lincoln

Self (archive footage)

Ages 209-212

Alain Leroy Locke

Self - First Black Rhodes Scholar (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Ages 93-96

Thurgood Marshall

Self - First Black Supreme Court Justice (archive footage)

Hattie McDaniel

Self - First Black Oscar Winner (archive footage)

Ages 124-128

Michelle Obama

Self - First Black First Lady (archive footage)

Ages 54-57

Jesse Owens

Self - Four-Time Olympic Gold Medalist (archive footage)

Ages 104-108

Colin Powell

Self - First Black Secretary of State (archive footage)

Ages 81-84

Joseph Rainey

Self - First Black Congressperson (archive footage)

Hiram Revels

Self - First Black Senator (archive footage)

Jackie Robinson

Self - First Black MLB Player (archive footage)

Ages 99-102

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Ages 136-139

Rick Santelli

Self (archive footage)

William Tecumseh Sherman

Self (archive footage)

Ruth Simmons

Self - First Black Ivy League President (archive footage)

Edwin M. Stanton

Self (archive footage)

George Stephanopoulos

Self (archive footage)

Ages 57-60

Brian Williams

Self (archive footage)

Neville Sanjana

Self - Biologist

Jennifer Doudna

Self - CRISPR Pioneer

John Evans

Self - Sociologist

Hank Greely

Self - Law Professor

Rebecca Cokley

Self - Disability Rights Activist

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Self (archive footage)

Francis Collins

Self (archive footage)

Ages 68-71

Dick Costolo

Self (archive footage)

Don Lemon

Self (archive footage)

Ages 52-55

Keith Morrison

Self (archive footage)

Ages 70-74

Reena Ninan

Self (archive footage)

Bernie Sanders

Self

Ages 76-80

John Franklin Stephens

Self (archive footage)

Keri Russell

Narrator (voice)

Ages 42-45

John Waters

Narrator (voice)

Ages 72-75

Karlie Kloss

Narrator (voice)

Ages 25-29

Aya Cash

Narrator (voice)

Ages 35-39

Adolf Eichmann

Self (archive footage)

Ages 112-115

Big Boi

Self (archive footage)

Ages 43-46

Jane Fonda

Self (archive footage)

Ages 80-83

Noam Chomsky

Self (archive footage)

Ages 89-92

Mike Wallace

Self (archive footage)

Ages 100-103

Rosario Dawson

Narrator (voice)

Ages 39-42

Fidel Castro

Self (archive footage)

Ages 91-95

George W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

Ages 71-75

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Ages 129-132

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Ages 107-110

Nelson Mandela

Self (archive footage)

Ages 99-103

Ann Coulter

Self (archive footage)

Ages 56-59

Peter Jennings

Self (archive footage)

Ages 79-83

Dan Rather

Self (archive footage)

Ages 86-89

Tom Brokaw

Self (archive footage)

Ages 78-81

Ethan Hawke

Narrator (voice)

Ages 47-50

Boris Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Ages 53-57

Jake Gyllenhaal

Narrator (voice)

Ages 37-40

Rainn Wilson

Narrator (voice)

Ages 52-55

Sophie Okonedo

Narrator (voice)

Ages 49-53

Keke Palmer

Narrator (voice)

Ages 24-28

Héctor Elizondo

Narrator (voice)

Ages 81-84

Kim Cattrall

Narrator (voice)

Ages 61-65

Kelly Rowland

Narrator (voice)

Ages 37-40

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Narrator (voice)

Ages 37-40

Connie Britton

Narrator (voice)

Ages 51-54

Ruth Negga

Narrator (voice)

Ages 37-40

Doja Cat

Self (archive footage)

Ages 22-25

Moon Jae-in

Self (archive footage)

Ages 65-68

Xi Jinping

Self (archive footage)

Ages 64-68

Justin Trudeau

Self (archive footage)

Ages 46-49

Ted Cruz

Self (archive footage)

Ages 47-50

Michael Bloomberg

Self (archive footage)

Ages 76-79

Seo Tai-ji

Self (archive footage)

Ages 46-49

Primary

Self

Ages 35-38

Jim Jones

Self (archive footage)

Ages 87-90

Catherine Oxenberg

Self - Mother of NXIVM Cult Member

Ages 56-60

Mark Zuckerberg

Self (archive footage)

Ages 34-37

Muhammad Ali

Self (archive footage)

Ages 76-79

Doug E. Fresh

Self (archive footage)

Ages 51-55

Gigi Hadid

Self (archive footage)

Ages 23-26

Leo J. Ryan

Self (archive footage)

Ages 93-96

Jackie Speier

Self

Ages 68-71

Jacob Collins Dodd

Sam