The Missiles of October

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The Missiles of October is a 1974 television docudrama that dramatizes the events and high-level decision-making of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

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instanceOf docudrama
historical drama
television film
authorOfSourceMaterial Robert F. Kennedy
basedOn Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
broadcastBy American Broadcasting Company
cinematographyBy Bill Butler
composer Laurence Rosenthal
countryOfOrigin United States
depicts ExComm
Fidel Castro
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Robert F. Kennedy
United States–Soviet relations
nuclear brinkmanship
depictsEvent United Nations Security Council confrontation over Cuban missiles
back-channel negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union
naval quarantine of Cuba
director Anthony Page
editor Sidney Katz
executiveProducer Herbert Brodkin
genre docudrama
political drama
mainSubject Cuban Missile Crisis
medium television
notableFor detailed portrayal of high-level decision-making during the Cuban Missile Crisis
numberOfEpisodes 2
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork ABC
originalReleaseFormat television miniseries
portrays Adlai Stevenson II
Anatoly Dobrynin
Curtis LeMay
Dean Rusk
John F. Kennedy
McGeorge Bundy
Nikita Khrushchev
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert McNamara
producer Robert Berger
productionCompany Paramount Television
releaseYear 1974
runtime approximately 150 minutes
settingPlace Cuba
Moscow
Washington, D.C.
settingTime 1962
writer Stanley R. Greenberg

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David Susskind notableWork The Missiles of October
William Devane notableWork The Missiles of October
James Olson notableWork The Missiles of October
Ernest Kinoy notableWork The Missiles of October
Stanley R. Greenberg notableWork The Missiles of October
Stanley R. Greenberg wrote The Missiles of October