Thirteen Days

You'll never believe how close we came.

7.0

|2000|145 min

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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