Post WWII film research post 5

For my film research I watched the movie Thirteen Days- by Roger Donaldson. The topic of research was The Cold War, and Thirteen Days focused on The Cuban Missile Crisis. Many films have historical backgrounds or have snippets of historical fact and fiction, but what does it mean to truly be a historical film. A historical film is one that's main point is sincerely for people to learn more about a historic event. It should be centered around the historical event and have mostly historic facts. Examples of historic films 12 years a slave- about slavery, Glory- About The Civil War, and Smoke Signals- about the history of Native Americans. All of these films had the purpose of displaying a historic event, and I believe that Thirteen Days is an excellent historical film because of the accuracy that it shows in centering around The Cuban Missile Crisis.

When it comes to a historic event like The Cuban Missile Crisis the media and so many other factors over the years can cause information to be misplaced, construed, or just plain forgotten. That is why it is important for historic films like Thirteen Days to set the record straight and give people a true perspective on the way that the event unfolded. The events that take place in Thirteen Days were incredibly accurate. I learned so much from the plot of the movie, and after I did some research, it was clear to me that almost everything was perfectly factual. The movie's opening scene shows a spy plane picking up the images of the Soviet missiles in Cuba, which was the same way that the missiles were found in real life. The movie also shows many of the white house meetings between President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and staff rooms full of military generals and political advisers, which nobody knew the details about until Thirteen Days displayed it perfectly. I was also not aware that warning shots were fired at a Soviet vessel in the blockade of Cuba, Commander Ecker's plane was shot at in an intelligence fly over the missiles, and that Major Rudolf Anderson Jr. of the U.S Airforce was killed after being shot down by a missile flying high over Cuba. All of these events could have been the start of a nuclear war between the Soviets and the United States and without the movie showing them, people would never know how close the crisis actually brought the two countries to war. All of the Characters were real as well. President J.F.K, his brother Robert Kennedy, his political adviser Ken O'Donnell, Major Anderson, General LeMay, -ex..  were all real characters that made the movie more factual. As I began to fact check events from the movie, I looked at movie reviews by Roger Ebert and The Guardian, that backed up the movie's historical accuracy. Because of how much the movie taught me about the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the accuracy in which it displays it in, Thirteen Days will forever be one of my favorite historical movies that I will recommend to my family and friends