(in alphabetical order)
(in credits order)
- Patrice Lumumba(archive footage)
- Dag Hammarskjöld(archive footage)
- Louis Armstrong(archive footage)
- Nikita Khrushchev(archive footage) (voice)
- Dizzy Gillespie(archive footage)
- Andrée Blouin(archive footage)
- Abbey Lincoln(archive footage)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically
- Art Blakey(archive footage)
- Leonid Brezhnev(archive footage)
- Pau Casals(archive footage)
- Fidel Castro(archive footage)
- John Coltrane(archive footage)
- Miles Davis(archive footage)
- Allen Dulles(archive footage)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower(archive footage)
- Duke Ellington(archive footage)
- Ella Fitzgerald(archive footage)
- Joseph Kasavubu(archive footage)
- Gamal Abdel Nasser(archive footage)
- Mobutu Sese Seko(archive footage)
- Nina Simone(archive footage)
- Adlai Stevenson(archive footage)
- Edward R. Murrow(archive footage) (uncredited)
- Queen Elizabeth II(archive footage) (uncredited)
