Directed by Alita Holly Release date 2001 (2001) Initial release 10 July 2001 Cinematography Chris Sikorowski | Productioncompany New Line Home Video Running time 48 minutes Director Alita Holly Editor Carol Oblath | |
Producers Alita Holly, Elizabeth Westwood Cast Kevin Costner, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker, Len Cariou, Bruce Campbell Similar A President to Remember, The Hoaxters, John F Kennedy: Years of, Warner at War, The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assa | ||
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.