Thirteen Days (2000)

You'll never believe how close we came.

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.

Director

Roger Donaldson

Writers

David Self

Themes1960satomic bombbased on true storycold warcuban missile crisisdiplomacyjohn f. kennedypoliticsthreatusa president