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 ndnewly 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
*Brugioni, Dino—CIA Photographic Interpreter
*Donaldson, Sam—ABC News
*Garthoff, Raymond—Brookings Institution
*Kalb, Marvin—CBS News Moscow Bureau Chief
*Kaplow, Herbert—NBC/ABC News Correspondent
*Khruschchev, Sergei—son of Nikita Khruschchev
*May, Prof. Ernest R.--Harvard University
*Salinger, Pierre—Kennedy Administration Press Secretary
*Self, David--''Thirteen Days'' screenwriter
*Szulc, Tad—Fidel Castro Biographer
*Thomas, Helen—Hearst Newspapers Columnist
*Westwood, Helen—ABC News London Bureau Chief
*Zelikow, Prof. Philip—Director of The Miller Center, UVA

See also

* Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy

References

External links

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2001 films
Documentary films about the Cold War
Films about the Cuban Missile Crisis
2001 documentary films

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