For thirteen extraordinary days in October of 1962, the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. Across the globe, people anxiously awaited the outcome of a harrowing political, diplomatic and military confrontation that threatened to end in an apocalyptic nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union

In Thirteen Days, the power and peril of the American presidency is dramatically explored by director Roger Donaldson, who captures the urgency, suspense and paralysing chaos of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The alarming escalation of events during those fateful days really brought President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby to the fore and it's through the eyes of a trusted presidential aide and confidante, Kenneth P. O'Donnell that the story unfolds.