Casting | Rôle |
|---|
| Daniel Ellsberg | Self (Narraror) |
| Patricia Ellsberg | Self |
| John Dean | Self - White House Counsel to President Nixon |
| Howard Zinn | Self - Historian |
| Peter Arnett | Self - Associated Press Correspondent (archive footage) |
| Ben Bagdikian | Self - Editor, Washington Post |
| Ann Beeson | Self - Associate Legal Director, ACLU |
| Robert Ellsberg | Self - Daniel's Son |
| Richard Falk | Self - Professor of International Law |
| Max Frankel | Self - Washington Bureau Chief, New York Times |
| J. William Fulbright | Self - Chair Foreign Relations Committee (archive footage) |
| James Goodale | Self - General Counsel, New York Times |
| Mike Gravel | Self - Senator (D-Alaska) |
| Morton Halperin | Self - Supervisor, Vietnam War Study (as Mort Halperin) |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Self - President (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson) |
| Randy Kehler | Self - Draft Resister |
| Bud Krogh | Self - Director, 'Plumbers' Unit (as Egil Krogh) |
| Pete McCloskey | Self - Representative, California |
| Robert McNamara | Self (archive footage) |
| Wayne Morse | Self - Senator, Oregon (archive footage) |
| Richard Nixon | Self - President (archive footage) |
| Thomas Oliphant | Self - Reporter, Boston Globe (as Tom Oliphant) |
| Dan Rather | Self - Reporter (archive footage) |
| Tony Russo | Self - RAND Analyst |
| Thomas Schelling | Self - RAND Analyst / Nobel Laureate |
| Hedrick Smith | Self - Reporter, New York Times |
| Janaki Tschannerl | Self - Peace Activist |
| Leonard Weinglass | Self - Russo Defense Attorney |