The world almost ended and nobody told you *how* close.
This documentary by ABC News commemorates the 30th anniversary of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at how close the U.S. and Soviet Union actually came to catastrophe.
Editing
Juxtaposes calm interviews with apocalyptic countdown tension.
Production
Unprecedented access to ExComm recordings still haunts.
Director
Foster Wiley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The '13 days' framing ignores that Soviet missiles remained in Cuba until December — Kennedy privately traded Jupiter missiles in Turkey, a secret kept for 25 years.
This 1992 doc dropped months after the Soviet collapse, when former officials finally spoke freely — making it a time-capsule of first honest testimony.
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