Full Cast & Crew
Directed by
| Tessa Coombs | ||
Cast (in credits order)
| Kenneth Branagh | ... | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
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Nina Andreyeva | ... | Self |
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Anatoly Cherniayev | ... | Self |
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Anatoli Dobrynin | ... | Self (as Anatoly Dobrynin) |
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'Doc' Frazier | ... | Self |
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Florence Galing | ... | Self |
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Leslie Gelb | ... | Self (as Leslie H. Gelb) |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | ... | Self | |
| Oleg Gordievsky | ... | Self | |
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G.A. Keyworth II | ... | Self |
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Maria Kovshura | ... | Self |
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Igor Kurdin | ... | Self (as Captain Igor Kurdin) |
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Suzanne Massie | ... | Self |
| Robert McFarlane | ... | Self (as Robert 'Bud' McFarlane) | |
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Gennadi Osipovich | ... | Self (as Col. Gennadi Osipovitch) |
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Andrei Pavlov | ... | Self |
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Charles Powell | ... | Self (as Sir Charles Powell) |
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Larisa Prokhorova | ... | Self |
| Dan Rather | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Donald Regan | ... | Self | |
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Rozanne Ridgway | ... | Self |
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Roald Sagdeev | ... | Self |
| Eduard Shevardnadze | ... | Self | |
| George Shultz | ... | Self | |
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Sergei Tarasenko | ... | Self |
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Valentin Varennikov | ... | Self (as Lt. Gen. Valentin Varennikov) |
| Caspar Weinberger | ... | Self | |
| Yuri Andropov | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Leonid Brezhnev | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| George Bush | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Konstantin Chernenko | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
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Raisa Gorbacheva | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Ronald Reagan | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
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Mathias Rust | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Denis Thatcher | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Tammy Wynette | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Produced by
| James Barker | ... | 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 |
