Directed by
| Tessa Coombs | ||
Cast (in credits order)
| Kenneth Branagh | ... | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
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Ivan Arkhipov | ... | Self |
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Liu Binyan | ... | Self |
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Tim Boggan | ... | Self |
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Robert Bowie | ... | Self |
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Youwei Chen | ... | Self |
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Stepan Chervonenko | ... | Self |
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John Paton Davies | ... | Self |
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Lev Deluisin | ... | Self |
| John Foster Dulles | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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George Elsey | ... | Self |
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Nikolai Fedorenko | ... | Self |
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Marshall Green | ... | Self |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ... | Self (archive footage) (as President Lyndon Johnson) | |
| Henry Kissinger | ... | Self | |
| Winston Lord | ... | Self | |
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Ruan Ming | ... | Self |
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Fyodor Mochulski | ... | Self |
| Richard Nixon | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Vice President Richard Nixon) | |
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Su Shaozhi | ... | Self |
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Petr Simchenkov | ... | Self |
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Oleg Vaskov | ... | Self |
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Ningkun Wu | ... | Self (as Professor Wu Ningkun) |
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Ge Yang | ... | Self |
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Shi Zhe | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Kai-Shek Chiang | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Gerald Ford | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Andrei Gromyko | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Nikita Khrushchev | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Aleksey Kosygin | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Zedong Mao | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Pat Nixon | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Dean Rusk | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Nikolai Simonov | ... | Peter the Great (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Joseph Stalin | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
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Enlai Zhou | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Produced by
| Neil Cameron | ... | producer |
| Jody Gottlieb | ... | line 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 |
| Svetlana Palmer | ... | researcher |