History Thriller
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
Directed by
Roger Donaldson
Kevin Costner
Kenneth O'Donnell
Bruce Greenwood
John F. Kennedy
Michael Gaston
Captain of USS Pierce
Lucinda Jenney
Helen O'Donnell
Dylan Baker
Robert McNamara
Len Cariou
Dean Acheson
Ilya Baskin
Anotoly Dobrinyn
Olek Krupa
Andrei Gromyko
Steven Culp
Robert F. Kennedy
Charles Esten
Maj. Rudolf Anderson
James Karen
George Ball
Bill Smitrovich
Gen. Maxwell Taylor
Jack McGee
Richard J. Daley
Ed Lauter
Gen. Marshall Carter
Madison Mason
Adm. George Anderson
Tom Everett
Walter Sheridan
Dakin Matthews
Arthur Lundahl
Frank Wood
McGeorge Bundy
Robert Miranda
RFK's Driver
Kevin Conway
Gen. Curtis LeMay
Karl Makinen
Young FBI Agent
John F. Kennedy
Self (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Allan Graf
Football Referee
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Caitlin Wachs
Kathy O'Donnell
Boris Lee Krutonog
Alexander Fomin
Tim Kelleher
Ted Sorensen
Alex Veadov
Radio Room Operator #3
Bruce Thomas
Floyd
Jon Foster
Kenny O'Donnell, Jr.
Peter White
John McCone
John Aylward
Orville Dryfoos
Michael Fairman
Adlai Stevenson
Oleg Vidov
Valerian Zorin
Benjamin Koldyke
RF-8 Pilot
Stephanie Romanov
Jacqueline Kennedy
Jack Blessing
John Scali
Armen Garo
Crewman on Freighter (uncredited)
David O'Donnell
Lt. Bruce Wilhemy
Pramod Kumar
U Thant (uncredited)
Greg Bronson
Secret Service Agent (uncredited)
Thomas Roberts
Sonar Operator
Christopher Lawford
Cmdr. William B. Ecker
Henry Strozier
Dean Rusk
Chris Henry Coffey
Officer of Destroyer
Shawn Driscoll
U-2 Pilot
Phil Hawn
UN Administrator (uncredited)
Kelly Connell
Pierre Salinger
J. Tucker Smith
Captain of USS Kennedy
Karen Ludwig
Operator Margaret
Colette O'Connell
Kenny's Assistant #2
Marliese Schneider
White House Operator #2
Todd Sible
RFK's Staffer
Timothy Jerome
Journalist
Richard Rossi
Reporter (uncredited)
Brad Yoder
Sorensen's Assistant (uncredited)
Audrey Rapoport
White House Operator #1
Ryder Davis
Boy Scout (uncredited)
Drake Cook
Mark O'Donnell
Matthew Dunn
Kevin O'Donnell
Kevin O'Donnell
NPIC Photo Interpreter
Janet Coleman
Evelyn Lincoln
Walter Adrian
Lyndon Johnson
Dan Ziskie
Gen. Walter 'Cam' Sweeney
Lamar Smith
Aide
Vivien Straus
White House Aide
Gene Del Bianco
Petty Officer
Daniel Vergara
OAS Secretary General José A. Mora
Ruben Moreno
Argentine Diplomat
Sean Bergin
Chief Sonarman
Alan Francis Sullivan
Executive Officer of USS Pierce
Robert Munstis
Radio Room Operator #1
Joseph Repoff
Radio Room Operator #2
Radu Gavor
Romanian Delegate
Zitto Kazann
Chilean Delegate
Charles Barrett
Air Force NCO
Darryl Smith
Football Coach
Marya Kazakova
Soviet Woman
Michael R. Bowman
Aide to JFK (uncredited)
Roger Ferreira
Army Lieutenant General (uncredited)
Gilley Grey
Air Force Pilot (uncredited)
Steven Koller
White House Staff (uncredited)
Larry Strauss
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon (uncredited)

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