TV series
The Missiles of October
1974 · 1 season
A claustrophobic, talk-heavy pressure cooker of a docudrama that makes history feel like a live wire.
- Created by
- Anthony Page
- Genres
- Drama, War & politics
- Starring
- William Devane, Ralph Bellamy, Howard Da Silva
- Overview
- The Missiles of October is a 1974 docudrama made-for-television play about the Cuban missile crisis. The title evokes the book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman about the missteps among the great powers and the failed chances to give an opponent a graceful way out, which led to the First World War. The teleplay introduced William Devane as John F. Kennedy and cast Martin Sheen as United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The script is based on Robert Kennedy's book Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- How it feels
- Tense, earnest and cynical. Measured and demanding.
- About
- Politics, power, fate, war
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
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- Created by
- Anthony Page
- Genres
- Drama, War & politics
- Starring
- William Devane, Ralph Bellamy, Howard Da Silva
