Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
| Frederick Lewis Allen | ... | (story) |
| Samuel Wood Bryant | ... | (story) |
Cast (in credits order)
| Robert Q. Lewis | ... | Narrator | |
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Frederick Lewis Allen | ... | Narrator |
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Elmer Davis | ... | Narrator |
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Allen Prescott | ... | Narrator |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Red Barber | ... | Narrator | |
| John Barrymore | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Irving Berlin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| William Jennings Bryan | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Billie Burke | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Vilma Bánky | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Al Capone | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Enrico Caruso | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Irene Castle | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Charles Chaplin | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Joseph Conrad | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Calvin Coolidge | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Dolores Costello | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Marie Curie | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Madame Curie) | |
| Clarence Darrow | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Jack Dempsey | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Thomas A. Edison | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Luis Firpo | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Rene Fonck | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Henry Ford | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Frankie Frisch | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| John Galsworthy | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| George Gershwin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Harold 'Red' Grange | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Texas Guinan | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Warren G. Harding | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Will H. Hays | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Herbert Hoover | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Rogers Hornsby | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Harry Houdini | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Walter Johnson | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Al Jolson | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Bobby Jones | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Peggy Hopkins Joyce | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Harry Lauder | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| John L. Lewis | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Charles A. Lindbergh | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Man o' War | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| John J. McGraw | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Helen Morgan | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| J.P. Morgan | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Pola Negri | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Ignacy Jan Paderewski | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Anna Pavlova | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| John J. Pershing | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Knute Rockne | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Lillian Russell | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Babe Ruth | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Nicola Sacco | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Al Shean | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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George Sisler | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Ruth St. Denis | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Billy Sunday | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Gloria Swanson | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Marion Talley | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Gene Tunney | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Rudolph Valentino | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Rudy Vallee | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Bartolomeo Vanzetti | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Johnny Weissmuller | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| H.G. Wells | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Paul Whiteman | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Woodrow Wilson | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Adolph Zukor | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Produced by
| Samuel Wood Bryant | ... | assistant producer |
| Richard De Rochemont | ... | producer |
Editing by
| Whitfield Davis | ||
| Leo Zochling | ||
Music Department
| Jack Shaindlin | ... | musical director |
Additional Crew
| Leona Carney | ... | researcher |
| Lois Jacoby | ... | researcher |
| Nancy Passac | ... | researcher |
