Story Line
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.
“You'll never believe how close we came.”
Top Cast
Kevin Costner
Kenneth O'Donnell
Bruce Greenwood
John F. Kennedy
Steven Culp
Robert F. Kennedy
Dylan Baker
Robert McNamara
Michael Fairman
Adlai Stevenson
Henry Strozier
Dean Rusk
Watch Now
Rating
7.0/ 10
Release Date
2000-12-25
Runtime
2h 25m
Genres
HistoryThriller
Similar Movies
User Reviews (2)
John Chard
9.5/10
•7/25/2015The art of political film making in all its glory.
"Communicate with the Soviets? We can't communicate with the Pentagon - and it's just across the goddamn river!"
October 1962, for 13 days the American government fought to avert a nuclear war ...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•7/10/2023Kevin Costner at least tried to do an accent in this movie, which probably means he got a new agent, a yes man that didn't bother to give him the advice that doing believable accents isn't his thing. It's almost like listening to your average Brit t...