Directed by
| Tessa Coombs | ||
Cast (in credits order)
| Kenneth Branagh | ... | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
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Karen Brutents | ... | Self |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | ... | Self | |
| Jimmy Carter | ... | Self (as President Jimmy Carter) | |
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Nikolai Detinov | ... | Self (as Lt. Gen. Nikolai Detinov) |
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Anatoli Dobrynin | ... | Self (as Anatoly Dobrynin) |
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Leslie Gelb | ... | Self (as Leslie H. Gelb) |
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Alexander Ginsburg | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Anatoli Gribkov | ... | Self (as Gen. Anatoly Gribkov) |
| Václav Havel | ... | Self (as Vaclav Havel) | |
| Wojciech Jaruzelski | ... | Self (as Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski) | |
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Mary King | ... | Self |
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Lane Kirkland | ... | Self |
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Jeane Kirkpatrick | ... | Self |
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Anatoly Koryagin | ... | Self |
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Nikolai Leonov | ... | Self |
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Anna Mikhailenko | ... | Self |
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Karol Modzelewski | ... | Self |
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Victor Orekhov | ... | Self |
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Richard Perle | ... | Self |
| Alina Pienkowska | ... | Self | |
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Yakov Raskin | ... | Self |
| Ronald Reagan | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Andrei Sakharov | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Helmut Schmidt | ... | Self (as Chancellor Helmut Schmidt) | |
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Anatoly Sharansky | ... | Self |
| Lech Walesa | ... | Self | |
| Susanne Willems | ... | Self | |
| Leonid Brezhnev | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Rosalynn Carter | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Gerald Ford | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Andrei Gromyko | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Pope John Paul II | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Nancy Reagan | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Cyrus Vance | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Produced by
| Jody Gottlieb | ... | line producer |
| Cate Haste | ... | producer |
| Isobel Hinshelwood | ... | associate producer |
| Jeremy Isaacs | ... | executive 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 |