The Cuban Missile Crisis comprised the thirteen most dangerous days in the history of mankind. Blow by blow, through stunning high-quality archive, this landmark film takes us inside the war rooms as a stray U-2 spy plane, a drunken telegram and a trigger-happy general all put the world within minutes of a nuclear holocaust. Told through the characters of Kennedy, Castro & Krushchev, this is a tense thriller full of lessons for humanity, as we continue to grapple with the dangers of living in a nuclear world.