The Missiles of October
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Movie Review: The Missiles of October
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this to share with my two sons. I had watched it my Junior year in High School. I remember how shocked I was at the time as I had no knowledge of any of this taking place. It's done, not so much as a movie but almost more as a documentary. I feel it's better than the more recent movie done on this subject starring Kevin Costner as it gives you more of a feeling of watching history unfold. I would HIGHLY recommend this movie.Movie Review: Sweating Armageddon...
Summary: 5 Stars
1974's "The Missiles of October" is a powerfully acted and still compelling TV docudrama of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, as the United States and Soviet Union came perilously clsoe to war over the placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
The presentation is stark but engrossing, in the manner of the film version of "Twelve Angry Men." An excellent cast of TV character actors inhabit a series of austere sets meant to replicate the White House, the Presidium of the Soviet Union, and a handful of other venues where crucial decisions were debated. The austere sets increase the tight focus on the principals as they struggle with the crisis and with their emotions. William Devane and a young Martin Sheen are outstanding as President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, at the center of an agonizing decision-making process. Howard de Silva plays a cantankerous and cunning Soviet Chairman Khrushchev, who discovers he may be riding a tiger he cannot dismount in the crisis.
The story is presented in a even-handed manner that reinforces the difficulties for both the Americans and the Soviets, including the supreme challenge for each of correctly decerning the intentions of the other. The intercutting of actual film footage showing military preparations adds to the building suspense. The dialogue is drawn or extrapolated from the historical record.
This film works both as a drama and as an exploration of an historical event still studied as a model of crisis decision-making. "The Missiles of October" is very highly recommended to those who remember the event and those who wish to study it.
Movie Review: A Movie Everyone Should See
Summary: 5 Stars
I lived through the Missiles of October. It is still amazing and truly frightening to see how close we came to nuclear war. No Senator, Congressional Rep, candidate for President, or informed voter should miss this film. I'd seen it on TV, then bought the video. The DVD makes the scenes even more immediate. All the acting is superb. Want to know why we need a President who can THINK? This is why.Movie Review: THE ULTIMATE WMDS
Summary: 5 Stars
THE MISSILES OF OCTOBER is a tense, tight, made for TV, docudrama about the Cuban missile crisis. It is a Golden Laurel award-winning film based on all historical evidence about those 13 days in October, 1962. Many of us have forgotten or never knew the crisis 45 years ago that brought us to the edge of nuclear war and possible extinction of life as we know it. Unbeknown to America and with full denial from Russia, the USSR had begun to build a nuclear missile arsenal in Cuba that was capable of destroying all of America and most of South America and it was 90 miles from our shores. When a U-2 spy plane discovered the project from 14 miles above the earth, it precipitated perhaps one of the greatest confrontations in world history. The two superpowers, the two nations capable of annihilating one another were face to face. Not that these weapons weren't already the greatest concern of the world already, but why was Russia putting these clearly 'offensive weapons' only 90 miles from the U.S. What were they up to? JFK and his administration had 10 days to figure it out and react before the missiles would be fully installed. The film is about those 13 days in October when the U.S. and Russia played the ultimate nuclear chess game. The film is mostly about the American side but also shows a very interesting side of the Russians during this time as it bounces back and forth between the two leaders. The tension was unimaginable as this was no theoretical discussion about war, this was nuclear war on our doorstep. It makes the discussion of WMD's in Iraq look like a elementary discussion. In reality, this might be a great film for all our leaders to watch before going to war. Kennedy had to face Kruschev as well as his own military machine, who wanted to take out the nuclear weapons with military force. Kennedy, for all his personal flaws, really seemed to grasp the dangers of war and what responding militarily could do to the world. He chose, instead, to use our military might as the bargaining chip for peace. Kruschev, also, had to battle his 'comrades' who were eager to take on the U.S. and he showed great courage in standing up to them and negotiating with the U.S. This is a well done film about a historical moment in our history that could have changed the course of world history overnight. As one reviewer said, this proves that history does not have to be boring. Should be required viewing for everyone under 50 as a reminder that we can deal with the most difficult of all situations and not have to go to war, even though it could have ended up with two nations destroying each other. [...]Movie Review: A classic confrontation between Kennedy and Kruschauve
Summary: 5 Stars
This docudrama shows the Kennedy Adminstration at its very best. William Devene makes a very believable President John F. Kennedy who handles the pressure of dealing with the threat of Soviet Nuclear Missiles a mere 90 miles from our shores. This film is very nicely restored and is complete and uncut. It also showed how President Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy dealt with the pressures of whether or not to evade Cuba. A young Martin Sheen proves what a good actor he was back then bringing the passion of Robert Kennedy into the proceedings. I remember having to watch this film when I was in high school and its nice now that school children of today can now watched a restored digital print of this classic docudrama.