The Power of Nightmares (2004) | Full Cast

Adam Curtis

DIRECTOR

Gilles Kepel

Self - Historian of Islamist Movement

William Kristol

Self

Melvin Goodman

Self - Head of Office of Soviet Affairs CIA 1976-87

Michael Ledeen

Self

Stephen Holmes

Self - Political Philosopher

Richard Perle

Self

Azzam Tamimi

Self - Institute of Islamic Political Thought

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self - General Secretary Soviet Communist Party

David Brock

Self

Milton Bearden

Self - CIA Field Officer - Afghanistan 1985-89

Jack Wheeler

Self - Adviser to the Reagan White House 1981-84

John Molloy

Self - Defence Lawyer Lackawanna Trial

Lewis Z. Koch

Self - Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

John Prados

Self - National Security Archive - Washington

Joe Conason

Self - Author 'The Hunting of the President'

Roxanne Euben

Self - Political Scientist

Sam Schmidt

Self - Defence Lawyer Embassy Bombings Trial

Richard Pipes

Self

Robert Bork

Self - Senior Member Federalist Society

Omar Azzam

Self - Cousin of Ayman Zawahiri

Irving Kristol

Self

Vincent Cannistraro

Self - Head of Counter-terrorism CIA 1988-90

Bill Durodie

Self - Director International Centre for Security Analysis - Kings College

Michael Lind

Self - Journalist and Former Neoconservative

Anne Cahn

Self - Arms Control and Disarmament Agency 1977-80

William Swor

Self - Defence Lawyer Detroit Sleeper Cell Trial

John Calvert

Self - Islamist Historian

Ron Hansen

Self - Reporter - The Detroit News

Paul Weyrich

Self - Religious Activist - Republican Party

Fouad Allam

Self - Interrogator Interior Ministry 1958-87

Essam El Erian

Self - Senior Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt

Abdullah Anas

Self - General Commander Afghan Arabs - Northern Afghanistan 1984-89

Kamal Habib

Self - Founder Member of Islamic Jihad

David Johnston

Self - Intelligence Specialist - New York Times

David Cole

Self - Professor of Law - Georgetown University

Jason Burke

Self - Author 'Al Qaeda'

Harvey Mansfield

Self - Straussian Philosopher - Harvard University

Stanley Rosen

Self - Pupil of Leo Strauss 1949

Ali Haroun

Self - Algerian Minister for Human Rights 1991-92

Paul Wolfowitz

Self

Theodore Rockwell

Self - Nuclear Scientist and Radiation Risk Expert

Leo Strauss

SelfarchiveFootage

Vladimir Pozner

Self - Soviet Spokesman in the United States 1987archiveFootage

John Kerry

SelfarchiveFootage

Adam Curtis

Narratoruncredited

Paula Jones

Selfuncredited,archiveFootage

John Ashcroft

Selfuncredited,archiveFootage