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INTRODUCTION: THE STORY OF THIRTEEN DAYS
 Commentary by Peter Almond (co-Producer)
Commentary by Graham Allison (political scientist/historian)
Commentary by Ernest May (historian)
Carnegie's Thirteen Days Moscow Screening Site
 Selected Reviews
 Scott Bowles, "No Career Crisis Looms for Costner,"
USA Today, January 9, 2001
Sergei Khrushchev, "The Thwarted Promise of the 13 Days,"
The New York Times, February 4th, 2001
"The film and my book are like mirror images reflecting events of
those days. Despite all their differences, Washington and Moscow were
united in one conviction: Whatever the cost, the situation must not slip
out of their control."
Charles Krauthammer, "Costner, Cuba, and the Kennedy's; Hollywood Takes a Stab
at the Cuban Missile Crisis-and Almost Gets it Right,"
The Weekly Standard, January 1, 2001
"The lie in Thirteen Days is ideological...it portrays the American
military brass, as represented in Generals Curtis LeMay and
Maxwell Taylor, as unredeemed warmongers."
Todd S. Purdum, "A True Story of What Now
Seems Incredible,"
New York Times, November 5, 2000
Theodore Sorensen, "The '13 Days' Taught Seven Truths,"
The Record Online, February 8, 2001
"[The movie] is a vivid and valuable reminder that those 13 days
demonstrated seven basic truths for every future president...Maybe
the Bush team should see the movie twice."
Kenneth Turan, "Easing Up on the Trigger,"
Los Angeles Times, December 25, 2000
Philip Zelikow, "Thirteen Days is Accurate Where it Counts,"
Los Angeles Times, January 22, 2001
"[Thirteen Days] went straight for the really big ideas
about the danger of nuclear war, the difference a president can make
and the value of historical memory, in this case recreating the Cold War
for a new generation."
Excerpt from Robert B. Toplin, History by Hollywood:
The Use and Abuse of the American Past
Although all historical dramas contain degrees of
fictionalization (some of them a considerable degree),
they can make significant contributions to the public's
appreciation of the past. Their colorful and exciting
stories give viewers the look and feel of life in places
different in both time and space. Hollywood's dramas also
have helped to arouse the public's interest in history.
Movies such as Reds, The Killing Fields and
Malcolm X have stimulated useful discussions about people
and issues from the American past.
-- Robert B. Toplin.
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