Film record

Thirteen Days

2000Feature film145 minVerification: Verified

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Production countries
United States
Languages
Spanish · English · Russian · Romanian
Genres
drama film · historical film · war film · political thriller film

Credits

Writing

David Self — Screenwriting

Production

Armyan Bernstein — Production
Kevin Costner — Production

Music

Trevor Jones — Music composition

Cinematography

Andrzej Bartkowiak — Cinematography

Editing

Conrad Buff IV — Editing

Direction

Roger Donaldson — Directing

Cast

Kevin Costner — Acting (Special Assistant to the President Kenneth O'Donnell)
Bruce Greenwood — Acting (President John F. Kennedy)
Steven Culp — Acting (Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy)
Stephanie Romanov — Acting (First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy)
Dylan Baker — Acting (Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara)
Kevin Conway — Acting (Chief of Staff of the USAF General Curtis LeMay)
Bill Smitrovich — Acting (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell Taylor)
Bruce Thomas — Acting
Caitlin Wachs — Acting (Kathy O'Donnell)
Charles Esten — Acting (U-2 pilot Major Rudolf Anderson)
Dakin Matthews — Acting (Arthur C. Lundahl)
Ed Lauter — Acting (Deputy Director of the CIA Lieutenant General Marshall Carter)
Frank Wood — Acting (National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy)
Jack McGee — Acting (Richard J. Daley)
James Karen — Acting (George Ball)
John Aylward — Acting (Orvil Dryfoos)
Jon Foster — Acting (Kenny O'Donnell, Jr.)
Lucinda Jenney — Acting (Helen O'Donnell)
Michael Fairman — Acting (United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson II)
Tom Everett — Acting (Walter Sheridan)
Peter White — Acting (Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John McCone)
Boris Krutonog — Acting (Alexander Feklisov)
Shawn Driscoll — Acting
Drake Cook — Acting (Mark O'Donnell)
Matthew Dunn — Acting (Kevin O'Donnell)
Janet Coleman — Acting (Evelyn Lincoln)
Liz Sinclair — Acting
Colette O'Connell — Acting
Karen Ludwig — Acting
Audrey Rapoport — Acting
Marliese Schneider — Acting
Henry Strozier — Acting (Secretary of State Dean Rusk)
Walter Adrian — Acting (Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson)
Tim Kelleher — Acting (White House Counsel Ted Sorensen)
Dan Ziskie — Acting (General Commander of the Tactical Air Command Walter 'Cam' Sweeney)
Len Cariou — Acting (Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson)
Kelly Connell — Acting (Press Secretary Pierre Salinger)
Aleksander Krupa — Acting (Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko)
Elya Baskin — Acting (Anatoly Dobrynin)
Timothy Jerome — Acting
Lamar Smith — Acting
Madison Mason — Acting (Chief of Naval Operations Admiral George Whelan Anderson Jr.)
Vivien Straus — Acting
Christopher Lawford — Acting (RF-8 Crusader pilot, Commander William Ecker)
David O'Donnell — Acting
Gene Del Bianco — Acting
Benjamin Koldyke — Acting
Daniel Vergara — Acting (Secretary General of the Organization of American States José Antonio Mora)
Ruben Moreno — Acting
Thomas Roberts — Acting
Sean Bergin — Acting
Alan Francis — Acting
Robert Munstis — Acting
Michael Gaston — Acting
Joseph Repoff — Acting
J. Tucker Smith — Acting
Chris Henry Coffey — Acting
Oleg Vidov — Acting (Valerian Zorin)
Radu Gavor — Acting
Zitto Kazann — Acting
Alex Veadov — Acting (Radio Room Operator #3)
Jack Blessing — Acting (ABC News correspondent John A. Scali)
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Charles Barrett — Acting
Darryl Smith — Acting
Allan Graf — Acting
Robert Miranda — Acting
Todd Sible — Acting
Marya Kazakova — Acting (Soviet Woman)
Cliff Fleming — Acting
Craig Hosking — Acting
Pramod Kumar — Acting (United Nations Secretary General U Thant)
Larry Strauss — Acting (Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon)
Documented participation

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Distribution

Netflix

International
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Releases by territory

United States · Original release
19 Dec 2000Checked 20 Sep 2026
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