- Source: Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis is a 48-minute 2001 Cold War documentary by New Line Home Video with "film footage from the era [and] newly created interviews covering U.S./Soviet relations from post-WWII Europe through the end of the crisis". The documentary is a "Beyond the Movie feature" on the infinifilm DVD for the movie Thirteen Days and synthesizes archival footage and still photography, interviews, Trinity and Beyond documentary scenes, and Thirteen Days movie scenes and sequences (many with archival footage).
Topics regarding the crisis' roots covered by the film include the 1938 Munich Agreement, Yalta Conference, British withdrawal from Greece & Turkey, Berlin Airlift, Bomber Gap, Kennedy-Nixon Debate, Cuban Revolution, Missile Gap, Bay of Pigs Invasion, and Crateology. The last third of the film covers events of the crisis (e.g., Operation Ortsac, EXCOMM, Kennedy Presidential recordings) and includes film dramatized scenes from Thirteen Days.
Production staff and interviewees
Director: Alita Renee Holly
Producers: Alita Renee Holly & Elizabeth Westwood
Editor: Carol Oblath
Dino Brugioni — CIA photographic interpreter
Sam Donaldson — ABC News
Raymond L. Garthoff — Brookings Institution
Marvin Kalb — CBS News Moscow bureau chief
Herbert Kaplow — NBC/ABC News correspondent
Sergei Khrushchev — son of Nikita Khrushchev
Prof. Ernest R. May — Harvard University
Pierre Salinger — Kennedy Administration press secretary
David Self --Thirteen Days screenwriter
Tad Szulc — Fidel Castro biographer
Helen Thomas — Hearst Newspapers columnist
Helen Westwood — ABC News London bureau chief
Prof. Philip Zelikow — director of The Miller Center, UVA
See also
Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy
References
External links
Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis at IMDb