| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Barbara Kopple | Crew | Crew | Second Unit |
 Bert Schneider | Crew | Production | Producer |
 David Wyles | Crew | Production | Researcher |
Don Lenzer | Crew | Camera | Second Unit Director of Photography |
Eugene Marner | Crew | Camera | Second Unit Director of Photography |
Francis Daniel | Crew | Crew | Second Unit |
James Nelson | Crew | Sound | Sound Editor |
Lennart Malmer | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography |
 Lynzee Klingman | Crew | Editing | Editor |
Michael F. Barrow | Crew | Lighting | Gaffer |
 Pierre Cottrell | Crew | Production | Consulting Producer |
Ralf D. Bode | Crew | Camera | Second Unit Director of Photography |
 Richard Pearce | Crew | Camera | Camera Operator, Associate Producer |
Susan Martin | Crew | Editing | Editor |
Tom Cohen | Crew | Production | Associate Producer, Sound |
Ed Lynch | Crew | Camera | Second Unit Director of Photography |
Karen Mitnick Liptak | Crew | Crew | Second Unit |
Carole Marner | Crew | Crew | Second Unit |
Peter Davis | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer |
Frank Davis | Crew | Production | Researcher |
Dell Byrne | Crew | Production | Researcher |
Brennon Jones | Crew | Production | Researcher |
Chips Sowerwine | Crew | Production | Consulting Producer |
Thomas C. Fox | Crew | Production | Consulting Producer |
 Bob Hope | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Hồ Chí Minh | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Clark Clifford | Cast | Self - Aide to President Truman 1946-50 | |
 Daniel Ellsberg | Cast | Actor | Self - Former Aide, Defense Dept., Rand Corp. |
 Dwight D. Eisenhower | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
George Coker | Cast | Actor | Self - Prisoner of War 1966-73 |
Georges Bidault | Cast | Self - French Foreign Minister in 1954 | |
 Harry S. Truman | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 J. Edgar Hoover | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 John F. Kennedy | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Joseph McCarthy | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Lyndon B. Johnson | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Ngo Dinh Diem | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Richard Nixon | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Robert F. Kennedy | Cast | Actor | Self - Senator (archive footage) |
I. F. Stone | Cast | Self - Journalist (voice) | |
John Foster Dulles | Cast | Self (archive footage) | |
J. William Fulbright | Cast | Actor | Self - Senator |
Michael V. Sulsona | Cast | Actor | Self - Former Sergeant |
George Trendell | Cast | Self - Sergeant | |
Kay Dvorshock | Cast | Actress | Self - Bobby Muller's Girlfriend |
William Marshall | Cast | Actor | Self - Former Sergeant |
George Patton IV | Cast | Actor | Self - Colonel |
Nguyen Van Tai | Cast | Self - Hung Dinh Village | |
Edward Sowders | Cast | Actor | Self - Former Spec/5, Army Deserter |
Maxwell Taylor | Cast | Actor | Self - Ambassador to South Vietnam 1964-65 (archive footage) |
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Walt Rostow | Cast | Actor | Self - Aide to Presidents Kennedy, Johnson |
Bobby Muller | Cast | Actor | Self - Former 1st Lieutenant |
Vo Thi Hue | Cast | Self - Hung Dinh Village | |
Diem Chau | Cast | Self - Editor, Trinh Bay Magazine | |
Barton Osborn | Cast | Actor | Self - Former Army Intelligence Officer, CIA |
David Emerson | Cast | Self - Concord, Massachusetts | |
Charles Hoey | Cast | Self - U.S. Air Force, Saigon | |
Nguyen Ngoc Linh | Cast | Actor | Self - Chairman, Mekong Conglomerate |
Ngô Bá Thành | Cast | Actress | Self - Political Prisoner (archive footage) |
Stan Holder | Cast | Self - Former Corporal | |
William C. Westmoreland | Cast | Actor | Self - Commanding General, Vietnam 1964-68 |
Randy Floyd | Cast | Self - Former Navy Captain | |
Vo Thi Tu | Cast | Self - Hung Dinh Village | |
Mary Cochran Emerson | Cast | Self - Wife of David Emerson | |
Duong Van Khai | Cast | Self - Refugee Outside Hung Dinh Village | |
Mui Duc Giang | Cast | Self - Saigon | |
Nguyen Thi Sau | Cast | Self - Former Political Prisoner | |
Jerry Holter | Cast | Self - U.S. Air Force, Saigon | |
Nguyễn Khánh | Cast | Actor | Self - President of South Vietnam 1964-65 |
Lora Sowders | Cast | Self - Detroit | |
Thich Lieu Minh | Cast | Self - An Quang Pagoda, Saigon | |
Father Chan Tin | Cast | Self - Saigon | |
Eugene McCarthy | Cast | Actor | Self - Senator (archive footage) |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
