Directed by
| Robert Youngson | ... | (as Robert G. Youngson) |
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
| Alfred Butterfield | ||
| Thomas H. Wolf | ||
Cast (in credits order)
| Arthur Godfrey | ... | Narrator | |
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Quentin Reynolds | ... | Narrator |
| H.V. Kaltenborn | ... | Narrator | |
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Clem McCarthy | ... | Narrator |
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André Baruch | ... | Narrator |
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Norman Brokenshire | ... | Narrator |
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Milton Cross | ... | Narrator |
| Dwight Weist | ... | Narrator | |
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Dan Donaldson | ... | Narrator |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Enrico Caruso | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Charles Chaplin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| King Charles III | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Prince Charles) | |
| Buffalo Bill Cody | ... | Self (archive footage) (as William F. Cody) | |
| Calvin Coolidge | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Eugene V. Debs | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Gertrude Ederle | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Mohandas K. Gandhi | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Mahatma Gandhi) | |
| Tomás Garrigue Masaryk | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Thomas Masaryk) | |
| Lou Gehrig | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Harold 'Red' Grange | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Warren G. Harding | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Hirohito | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Herbert Hoover | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Al Jolson | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Fiorello LaGuardia | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... | Self (archive footage) (as V.I. Lenin) | |
| Charles A. Lindbergh | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Huey Long | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| William McKinley | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Knute Rockne | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Will Rogers | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Franklin Delano Roosevelt) | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Lillian Russell | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Babe Ruth | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Joseph Stalin | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) | |
| Harry S. Truman | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Tsar Nicholas II | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Ben Turpin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Rudolph Valentino | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Pancho Villa | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Helen Wills | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Woodrow Wilson | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Produced by
| Alfred Butterfield | ... | producer |
Music by
| Howard Jackson | ||
| William Lava | ||
Editing by
| Leonard C. Hein | ||
| Albert Helmes | ||
Production Management
| Walter C. Ament | ... | production supervisor |
Sound Department
| Gerald W. Alexander | ... | sound |
| Gordon M. Davis | ... | sound |
| Kenneth Upton | ... | sound |
Music Department
| Herman Fuchs | ... | music advisor |
| Charles Maxwell | ... | orchestrator |
Additional Crew
| De Leon Anthony | ... | special research |
| Sherry Archibald | ... | special research |
| George Butts | ... | special research |
| Frank Clark | ... | special research |
| Gretchen Curry | ... | special research |
| Virginia Dillard | ... | special research |
| Elinor M. Grey | ... | special research |
| Virginia Malone | ... | special research |
| Barbara Pray | ... | special research |
