Thirteen Days poster
Director Roger Donaldson
Screenplay David Self

Thirteen Days

Tagline: You'll never believe how close we came.

Release Date: 2000-12-25

Duration: 145 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Kevin Costner
    Kenneth O'Donnell
  • Bruce Greenwood
    John F. Kennedy
  • Dylan Baker
    Robert McNamara
  • Olek Krupa
    Andrei Gromyko
  • Ed Lauter
    Gen. Marshall Carter
  • Kevin Conway
    Gen. Curtis LeMay
  • Charles Esten
    Maj. Rudolf Anderson
  • Bill Smitrovich
    Gen. Maxwell Taylor
  • Steven Culp
    Robert F. Kennedy
  • Len Cariou
    Dean Acheson