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.
Kevin Costner
as Kenneth O'Donnell
Bruce Greenwood
as John F. Kennedy
Steven Culp
as Robert F. Kennedy
Dylan Baker
as Robert McNamara
Michael Fairman
as Adlai Stevenson
Henry Strozier
as Dean Rusk
Frank Wood
as McGeorge Bundy
Kevin Conway
as Gen. Curtis LeMay
Tim Kelleher
as Ted Sorensen
Len Cariou
as Dean Acheson
Bill Smitrovich
as Gen. Maxwell Taylor
Shawn Driscoll
as U-2 Pilot