Special features of this DVD: featuring archival audio of John F. Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Kenneth P. O'Donnell and newly created interviews of Pierre Salinger, Sergei Khrushchev and many others ; documentary: Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis features film footage from the era with newly created interviews covering U.S./Soviet relations from post-WWII Europe through the end of the crisis ; video biographies of key figures involved in the crisis, featuring John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, and many others ; subtitle track featuring information on the crisis ; filmmaker commentary featuring director Roger Donaldson, Kevin Costner and others ; deleted scenes with director commentary ; documentary: Bringing history to the silver screen ; visual effects scene deconstructions: multi-angle feature ; cast and crew filmographies ; script-to-script access to the film ; link to original website ; exclusive access to on-line Infinifilm features.

Film based on the book "The Kennedy tapes : inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis", edited by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow.

Cinematographers, Andrezej Bartkowiak, Roger Deakins, Christopher Duddy ; editor, Conrad Buff ; original music, Trevor Jones ; production designer, Dennis Washington.

Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker.

October 1962, for thirteen extraordinary days the world stood on the brink of destruction. Krushchev wouldn't back down, President Kennedy wouldn't give in. Inspired by the real-life events that took place in the Kennedy White House.

MPAA rating: PG-13.

DVD.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.