Thirteen Days

Thirteen Days

You'll never believe how close we came.

2000145 min7.0 / 10

A tense, intellectually demanding historical thriller about the Cuban Missile Crisis that emphasizes the existential stakes of nuclear brinkmanship and the weight of political decision-making under apocalyptic pressure.

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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