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Thirteen Days is a 2000 American historical political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. It dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership.
Jan 12, 2001 · Thirteen Days: Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Shawn Driscoll, Kevin Costner, Drake Cook, Lucinda Jenney. In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.
For thirteen extraordinary days in October of 1962, the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. Across the globe, people anxiously awaited the outcome of a harrowing political...
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President John F. Kennedy and his top advisors grapple with the threat of nuclear war during the harrowing Cuban Missile Crisis.
In the early days of October 1962, U.S. spy planes photograph the impending installation of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. While there is widespread agreement that the missiles must not be allowed, there is no clear way to ensure that.
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Thirteen Days. The 1962 Cuban missile crisis was the closest we've come to a nuclear world war. Nikita Khrushchev installed Soviet missiles in Cuba, 90 miles from Florida and within striking distance of 80 million Americans. Kennedy told him to remove them, or else.
Dec 25, 2000 · 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.
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Roger Donaldson’s 2000 film, “Thirteen Days,” dramatizes the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Though the title resembles Robert F. Kennedy’s 1969 book, it actually adapts Ernest R. May & Phillip D. Zelikow’s 1997 book, “The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis,” which included more information ...
Thirteen Days DRAMA Kevin Costner stars in this inside look at how the Kennedy Administration responded to the discovery of offensive Soviet weapons in Cuba, and the pressurized tug-of-war that ensued between the US and the USSR during the thirteen days of the missile crisis.