New Delhi: Miscalculation, misinformation and misperceptions in the fall of 1962 almost brought the two superpowers of the time, the US and the USSR, to the brink of nuclear conflict, as the sandy ...

Director Roger Donaldson says actor Bruce Greenwood virtually became John F. Kennedy during the production of “Thirteen Days,” the riveting historical thriller that relives the 1962 Cuban missile ...

Thirteen Days, a big, square, rousing political thriller docudrama, traces the seismic backroom maneuvers of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Directed by Roger Donaldson (”No Way Out”), from a script by ...

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In October 1962, the world stood on the edge of destruction. The United States discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, sparking thirteen tense days when global annihilation felt inevitable. Both ...

April 10 -- Kevin Costner's plot to convince the world's leaders to watch Thirteen Days, his recent film based on the Cuban missile crisis, continues to gain steam. The actor met with Cuban leader ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Renata Keller is an associate professor of history at the ...