Thirteen Days Movie Report

This report provides a detailed analysis of the Thirteen Days movie, which portrays the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It discusses the key concepts related to the Cold War between the USA and USSR, explores the causes and effects of the Cold War, and examines the threat posed by nuclear warfare. The report also highlights the lessons learned from this historical event.

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Introduction
The thirteen days movie is a 2000 American film which describes the historical information
about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The movie starts by displaying the U.S political
leadership whereby the Kevin Costner star is featured as the White House assistant. In addition,
Steven Culp is described as the Attorney General and Dylan Baker and Robert Kennedy acting
as the Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.1 The former Attorney general Robert Kennedy
tries to reveal the inside within the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis through the file.
Therefore, the movie report will include narration of the key concepts which relates to an
important episode of the Cold War between USSR and USA. In addition, the report will also
articulate different concepts related to lessons about the causes and effects of the Cold War and
the threat caused by nuclear warfare.
The narration on important episodes of the Cold War between the USA and USSR.
Entirely the film tries to reveal what happened during the Cold War mostly between USSR and
Sarthe chronicle starts at Tuesday morning October 16, 1962, when Robert Kennedy learns that
Russia has been installing new weapons in Cuba. At the same time that is early morning,
President Kennedy called for a meeting whereby he called the cabinet members and other
government officials to discuss the Soviet crisis on the installation of nuclear weapons.
Immediate action was to be formulated and all the respective authorities were to participate in
1 Alexander Fedorov, Levitskaya Anastasia, and Gorbatkova Olga. "Directions, Objectives, and
Author's Concepts of Audiovisual Media Interpretations of School and University Theme in the
Soviet Cinema of the'Thaw'Period (1956–1968)." (European Journal of Contemporary
Education 6, no. 3 (2017) [516-529].

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carrying out the action plan for the incidence.2 The film shows how different authorities raised
arguments about the issue of installation of nuclear weapons in Cuba. After a short time, the
meeting arrived at a solution whereby the president demanded the press not to reveal the matter,
unfortunately, the USSR discovered that the US was aware of the missiles installed in Cuba. The
film shows that the USSR was still installing nuclear weapons as the US was still struggling to
make an apt decision to control the incidence.
By the end of the meeting, the film indicates how officials agreed to construct a blockade around
Cuba but some characters in the film were suggesting for a military strike in Cuba. At long last,
there was no overall consensus agreed between the authorities but the president supported the
blockade. His stand for blockade had moral lessons since he said that it was good enough to use
a blockage than to use military strike since more civilians would have been killed within the
struggle. He said that the use of a military strike for confronting the conflict with the USSR
would result in a significant risk.
Therefore, the movie clearly shows that by Thursday evening the majority had agreed for a
blockade. At this time president, Kennedy decided to use two groups whereby each group was to
provide details on how to organize the blockade. Some of the members were seen unable to
initiate new techniques which will favor the use of blockade and by the end of the day, the film
shows how the president was suggesting the use of military at the event where the blockade was
seen ineffective to provoke the soviet in Cuba.
2 Gregory Frame, "The Myth of John F. Kennedy in Film and Television." (Film & History: An
Interdisciplinary Journal 46, no. 2 (2016) [21-34].

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After a short while, the president joins the television and makes a speech showing how the nation
is handling the events in Cuba and he also explained the reasons for the use of blockade in Cuba.
The entire world was watching how the US was to deal with the installation of weapons in Cuba.
After a large number of people supported the move the president Kennedy legalized the blockade
to start immediately the following day whereby meticulous plans were to be done so as to
support the blockade. The movie shows how the US started the blockade to remove the missile
in Cuba at the same time it indicates how the Russian vessels were continuously preventing the
establishment of the blockade in Cuba.3
By Friday morning the film shows how White House received a letter from Chairman
Khrushchev which indicated that the Soviet movement was willing to work with president
Kennedy so as to de-escalate the tension and also work in preventing the eruption of war
between the US and USSR. The letter indicated that if the US was to remove the blockade and
stop attacking Cuba then Russia was ready to end the rebellion and withdraw the missiles which
it had installed in Cuba. After a short while news arrived showing how surveillance plane was
shot down in Cuba. This incidence geared the use of military action and the president fully
organized for the attack next morning. Early in the morning the Soviet ambassador visited the
president Kennedy and agreed that Soviet decided to remove the missiles in Cuba thus the crisis
was effectively over.
Lessons about the effects and causes of the Cold War and the threat of nuclear warfare.
3 Max Frankel, "Learning from the Missile Crisis." (In Cuban Communism, 1959-2003 2018)
[ 80-90].

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The causes of incidence were associated with the Soviet Union.4 The U-2 photos spread in the
US showing how the USSR was in the process of installing missiles in Cuba. This incidence
provoked the US. The weapons placed were believed to cause a lot of killings if the US president
could not have taken the immediate action to control the incidence form the Soviet Union. In
addition, the other cause was attributed to how the USAF U-2 spy planes revealed how USSR
was planning to use the nuclear ballistic weapons in Cuba.5 The impacts of the missiles were to
kill more than 80 million American and at the same time it was to cause war which could have
affected the political stability within the two nations.
The threat of nuclear weapons was to cause killings if serious actions were not to be taken.
President Kennedy was reluctant about the incidence but the diplomats advised him to take
immediate action before the Soviet could have caused huge killings in America.
Conclusion
To sum up, the report has clearly discussed the entire scene which occurred in the thirteen days
movie. The overall description outlined in the report shows how the missile crisis occurred
between the USSR and the US.6 The causes of the incidents were attributed to USSR as their
4 Spencer Gregg CJ. "Crisis in Education--The Effect of the Cold War on the American
Education System." (2016) [78].
5 Leonard Quart, and Auster Albert. American film and society since 1945. ABC-CLIO, 2018
[56].
6 Marla Zubel, "Toward a Second World Third Cinema: anti-colonial internationalism in Tadeusz
Jaworski's 80 Days of Lumumba." (Studies in Eastern European Cinema 7, no. 3 (2016) [190-
207].

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missiles were anticipated to cause huge killings to Americans since the nuclear weapons could
attack large areas in the US.
Bibliography
Fedorov, Alexander, Anastasia Levitskaya, and Olga Gorbatkova. "Directions, Objectives, and
Author's Concepts of Audiovisual Media Interpretations of School and University Theme in the
Soviet Cinema of the'Thaw'Period (1956–1968)." European Journal of Contemporary
Education 6, no. 3 (2017): 516-529.

English
Frame, Gregory. "The Myth of John F. Kennedy in Film and Television." Film & History: An
Interdisciplinary Journal 46, no. 2 (2016): 21-34.
Frankel, Max. "Learning from the Missile Crisis." In Cuban Communism, 1959-2003, pp. 80-90.
Routledge, 2018.
Gregg, Spencer CJ. "Crisis in Education--The Effect of the Cold War on the American Education
System." (2016).
Quart, Leonard, and Albert Auster. American film and society since 1945. ABC-CLIO, 2018.
Zubel, Marla. "Toward a Second World Third Cinema: anti-colonial internationalism in Tadeusz
Jaworski's 80 Days of Lumumba." Studies in Eastern European Cinema 7, no. 3 (2016): 190-
207.