Plot
For over half a century, 60 Minutes' fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Wallace's storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today’s precarious tipping point.
Trailer
Cast
Mike Wallace
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Carson
Self (archive footage)
Mickey Cohen
Self (archive footage)
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
John McCain
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Oprah Winfrey
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
David Letterman
Self (archive footage)
Larry King
Self (archive footage)
Ruhollah Khomeini
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Jacqueline Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Self (archive footage)
Spiro Agnew
Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
(archive footage)
Dick Cavett
(archive footage)
Jonathan Alter
(archive footage)
Menachem Begin
(archive footage)
Jack Benny
(archive footage)
Émile Zola
(archive footage)
Thomas Hart Benton
(archive footage)
David Boies III
(archive footage)
Tom Brokaw
(archive footage)
Salvador Dalí
(archive footage)
Diana Dors
(archive footage)
Kirk Douglas
(archive footage)
John Ehrlichman
(archive footage)
Hugh Downs
(archive footage)
Oriana Fallaci
(archive footage)
Barbra Streisand
(archive footage)
Tom Foreman
(archive footage)
Barney Frank
Self (archive footage)
Aladena Fratianno
Self (archive footage)
Jackie Gleason
Self (archive footage)
Leona Helmsley
Self (archive footage)
Don Hewitt
Self (archive footage)
Robert Kirsch
Self (archive footage)
Steve Kroft
Self (archive footage)
Shirley MacLaine
Self (archive footage)
Groucho Marx
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Miller
Self (archive footage)
Edward R. Murrow
Self (archive footage)
Manuel Noriega
Self (archive footage)
Bill O'Reilly
Self (archive footage)
Drew Pearson
Self (archive footage)
Maury Povich
Self (archive footage)
Dan Rather
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Harry Reasoner
Self (archive footage)
Geraldo Rivera
Self (archive footage)
Lillian Roth
Self (archive footage)
Anwar Sadat
Self (archive footage)
Morley Safer
Self (archive footage)
Jean Seberg
Self (archive footage)
Rod Serling
Self (archive footage)
Dinah Shore
Self (archive footage)
Beverly Sills
Self (archive footage)
Lesley Stahl
Self (archive footage)
Chris Wallace
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Walters
Self (archive footage)
William C. Westmoreland
Self (archive footage)
Eric Sevareid
Self (archive footage)
Ed Bradley
Self (archive footage)
Ben Bradlee
Self (archive footage)
Golda Meir
Self (archive footage)