10. Thirteen Days
This 2000 historical political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Kevin Costner, dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The plot follows Costner as top White House assistant Kenneth P. O’Donnell, with Bruce Greenwood featured as President John F. Kennedy, has been criticized for its choice of O’Donnell as the protagonist, with then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara later claiming in an interview that O’Donnell had little to no role in the unfolding events.
However, despite McNamara’s protestations, he and other Kennedy administration officials did concede that the film was accurate in many ways to the truth of how events unfolded in October 1962. There was an earlier attempt to commit this story to film with 1974s ‘The Missiles of October,’ which was based on Kennedy’s book, but the 2000 film had access to newly declassified information not available to the earlier production which gave it a stronger air of authenticity.
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