The Missiles of October
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First episode date December 18, 1974 Country USA | 8.2/10 IMDb Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 18 December 1974 Network American Broadcasting Company Cast (President John F. Kennedy), (U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson), Howard Da Silva (Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev), (U.N. Secretary-General U Thant), (Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy), (David Powers, Special Assistant to the President)Similar movies Thirteen Days (2000), RFK (2002), Martin Sheen appears in The Missiles of October and Bobby, An American Affair (2009), The Kennedys (2011) Tagline The most powerful docudrama ever produced on The Cuban Missile Crisis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Missiles of October is a 1974 docudrama made-for-television play about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The title evokes the book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman about the missteps amongst the great powers and the failed chances to give an opponent a graceful way out, which led to the First World War. The teleplay introduced William Devane as John F. Kennedy and cast Martin Sheen as United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The script is based on Robert Kennedy's book Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Awards
Technical Director Ernie Buttelman won the 1975 Emmy Award for outstanding achievement. There were several other Emmy nominations, including outstanding drama or comedy special; outstanding supporting actor in a comedy or drama special for Ralph Bellamy; and outstanding writing in an original teleplay for Greenberg. That same year Greenberg won the Humanitas Prize in the 90-minute category.
In 1997 the play won a Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame award.
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