Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2001)

Directed by

Alita Holly

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How it feels

This documentary uses archival footage and interviews to explain the events leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. It covers US-Soviet relations from World War Two through the early 1960s, including key moments like the Berlin Airlift and the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

informativehistoricalarchivaleducationalneutralobjectivefactualfast-paced

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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