2000 · history · thriller · political
Thirteen Days
Directed by Roger Donaldson2h 25m2000
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.
Our read: Thirteen Days (2000) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded history · thriller · political entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme history / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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