Distribution

• Adam Curtis — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Donald Trump — Self (archive footage)
• Владимир Путин — Self (archive footage)
• Ronald Reagan — Self (archive footage)
• Henry Kissinger — Self (archive footage)
• Gordon Brown — Self (archive footage)
• Jane Fonda — Self (archive footage)
• Ivana Trump — Self (archive footage)
• Benjamín Netanyahu — Self (archive footage)
• Tony Blair — Self (archive footage)
• George W. Bush — Self (archive footage)
• Barack Obama — Self (archive footage)
• David Cameron — Self (archive footage)
• Nigel Farage — Self (archive footage)
• Bill Clinton — Self (archive footage)
• Hillary Clinton — Self (archive footage)
• Muammar Gaddafi — Self (archive footage)
• Victor Gotbaum — Self (archive footage)
• Ruhollah Khomeini — Self (archive footage)
• Timothy Leary — Self (archive footage)
• John Perry Barlow — Self (archive footage)
• Mark Abene — Self (archive footage) (as Phiber Optik)
• Nancy Reagan — Self (archive footage)
• Louis Farrakhan — Self (archive footage)
• Richard Doty — Self (archive footage)
• Robert Parry — Self (archive footage)
• Elena Ceaușescu — Self (archive footage)
• Nicolae Ceaușescu — Self (archive footage)
• Jim Goodwin — Self (archive footage)
• Yusuf al-Qaradawi — Self (archive footage)
• Saddam Hussein — Self (archive footage)
• Sean Connery — Self (archive footage)
• Nicolas Cage — Self (archive footage)
• Bashar al-Assad — Self (archive footage)
• Hafez al-Assad — Self (archive footage)
• Daniel Pearl — Self (archive footage)
• Kim Kardashian — Self (archive footage)
• Vladislav Surkov — Self (archive footage)
• Wael Ghonim — Self (archive footage)
• Seth Meyers — Self (archive footage)
• Abu Musab al-Suri — Self (archive footage)
• Sissy Spacek — Self (archive footage)
• Jeff Bridges — Self (archival footage)
• Judea Pearl — Self (archive footage)
• Stephen Colbert — Self (archive footage)

Réalisation

• Adam Curtis — director

Scénario

• Adam Curtis — writer

Production

• Sandra Gorel — producer
• Katie Spedding — production coordinator
• Cara Goold — production manager
• Victoria Jaye — executive producer
• Tomiko Newson — production assistant

Son

• Gavin Miller — music supervisor
• Dave Zarpak — sound recordist
• Nick Fry — sound mixer

Équipe technique

• Robert Del Naja — thanks
• Kumail Tayyebkhan — technical advisor

Montage

• Stuart Robertson — archival footage research
• George Winfield — online editor
• Mark Wybourn — online editor
• Nuala Sheridan — colorist