(in credits order)
- Lien-Hang Nguyen(as Lien-Hang T. Nguyen)
- Kiên Thành Lê(as Le Kien Thahn)
- Le Ly Hayslip(as Phung Thi Le Ly Hayslip)
- Gregory Daddis(as Col. Gregory A. Daddis)
- Peter Osnos(as Peter L.W. Osnos)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically
- Fidel Castro(archive footage)
- Charles Collingwood(archive footage)
- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny(archive footage) (as General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny)
- Ngo Dinh Diem(archive footage)
- Le Duan(archive footage)
- John Foster Dulles(archive footage)
- Martin Luther King Jr.(archive footage) (as Martin Luther King)
- John Lewis(archive footage)
- William Terry Main(archive footage) (as William Terry 'Jake' Main)
- Zedong Mao(archive footage)
- Robert McNamara(archive footage)
- Ho Chí Minh(archive footage)
- Bruce Morton(archive footage)
- Bert Quint(archive footage)
- Dean Rusk(archive footage)
- Morley Safer(archive footage)
- Frank Stanton(archive footage)
- William C. Westmoreland(archive footage) (as Gen. William Westmoreland)
