As viewed through the eyes of a presidential aide, an inside look at the intense high stakes battle that raged within the U.S. government between the Kennedys, the CIA and the Pentagon as the world stood at the brink of nuclear war.

The true story focuses on how President Kennedy, his brother Bobby, and the U.S. government responded to the discovery of offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba and the life-or-death tug-of-war that ensued between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. during those thirteen days of crisis in October 1962.

The political saga moves from battles in the White House to the skies above Cuba, where U.S. planes dodge Soviet fire; to the high seas, where a showdown between the U.S. and Soviet naval ships threatens to trigger war; to the massive military preparations that presage war.

Directed by
Roger Donaldson

Cast
Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell
Bruce Greenwood - John F Kennedy
Steven Culp - Robert F Kennedy
Dylan Baker - Robert McNamara
Michael Eugene - Fairman Adlai Stevenson
Henry Strozier - Dean Rusk
Frank Wood - McGeorge Bundy
Kevin Conway - General Curtis LeMay
Tim Kelleher - Ted Sorensen
Len Cariou - Dean Acheson

Production Co.
Beacon Pictures

Produced by
Peter Kuran
Ilona Herzberg
Michael de Luca

Studio
New Line Records

Writer
David Self
Ernest R May
Philip D Zelikow

Music
Trevor Jones