Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Wikipedia article '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'. Production staff and interviewees Director: Alita Renee Holly Producers: Alita Renee Holly & Elizabeth Westwood Editor: Carol Oblath Brugioni, DinoCIA Photographic Interpreter Donaldson, SamABC News Garthoff, RaymondBrookings Institution Kalb, MarvinCBS News Moscow Bureau Chief Kaplow, HerbertNBC/ABC News Correspondent Khruschchev, Sergeison of Nikita Khruschchev May, Prof. Ernest R.--Harvard University Salinger, PierreKennedy Administration Press Secretary Self, David--'Thirteen Days' screenwriter Szulc, TadFidel Castro Biographer Thomas, HelenHearst Newspapers Columnist Westwood, HelenABC News London Bureau Chief Zelikow, Prof. PhilipDirector of The Miller Center, UVA See also * Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy References
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