Thirteen Days was awful....

[RadioRaheem84]

NO mention of the Bay of Pigs or Operation Mongoose. Out of the blue, the Kennedy administration notices missiles on their way to Cuba as if this is just what "totalitarian" governments like Cuba do, ship missiles from the USSR. :rolleyes:

It makes Kennedy look a bit like a strong dove rather than the Cold War hawk he was. I mean why do Americans think that Cuba received missiles out of a whim? The movie only makes sense if you think that Cuba is some sort of totalitarian hellhole that ships missiles back and forth because that's what "evil" nations do.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Haven't seen it personally it but it sounds hella biased... another piece of typical Hollywood shit then. Even if it just focuses on the thirteen days, it doesn't excuse it from having no back story.
I don't really know much about the crisis, so had I seen it I probably wouldn't have questioned the validity of the events, although I'd hold them with a degree of scepticism. Its a shame that so many people that have watched in the past probably take the events as solid fact, and next to no back story just makes the US seem like some sort of victim...

[here for the revolution]

It also conveniently leaves out the fact that it was actually a cool-headed Russian who saved the world:-
`Arguably the most dangerous moment in the crisis was only recognized during the Cuban Missile Crisis Havana conference in October 2002. Attended by many of the veterans of the crisis, they all learned that on October 26, 1962 the USS Beale had tracked and dropped signaling depth charges (the size of hand grenades) on the B-59, a Soviet Project 641 (NATO designation Foxtrot) submarine which was, unknown to the U.S., armed with a 15 kiloton nuclear torpedo. Running out of air, the Soviet submarine was surrounded by American warships and desperately needed to surface. An argument broke out among three officers on the B-59, including submarine captain Valentin Savitsky, political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov, and Deputy brigade commander Second Captain Vasiliy Arkhipov. An exhausted Savitsky became furious and ordered that the nuclear torpedo on board be made combat ready. Accounts differ about whether Commander Arkhipov convinced Savitsky not to make the attack, or whether Savitsky himself finally concluded that the only reasonable choice left open to him was to come to the surface.[55]:303, 317 During the conference Robert McNamara stated that nuclear war had come much closer than people had thought. Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, said, "A guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world."`