Directed by
| Tessa Coombs | ||
Cast (in credits order)
| Kenneth Branagh | ... | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
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Nikolai Bieloborodov | ... | Self (as Gen. Nikolai Bieloborodov) |
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Dino A. Brugioni | ... | Self (as Dino Brugioni) |
| Fidel Castro | ... | Self (as President Fidel Castro) | |
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Nikolai Chernykh | ... | Self |
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Ramon Conte | ... | Self |
| Walter Cronkite | ... | Self | |
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Grigori Danilevich | ... | Self |
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Fernando Davalos | ... | Self |
| Anatoli Dobrynin | ... | Self (as Anatoly Dobrynin) | |
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Julio Luaces Dominguez | ... | Self |
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Jose Ramon Fernandez | ... | Self |
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Anatoli Gribkov | ... | Self (as Gen. Anatoly Gribkov) |
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Sam Halpern | ... | Self |
| Ed Herlihy | ... | Self (archive sound) | |
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Roger Hillsman | ... | Self |
| Robert McNamara | ... | Self | |
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Jorge Risquet | ... | Self |
| Pierre Salinger | ... | Self | |
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William Y. Smith | ... | Self (as Gen. William Y. Smith) |
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Theodore Sorensen | ... | Self |
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Oleg Troyanovski | ... | Self |
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Fulgencio Batista | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Andrei Gromyko | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Nikita Khrushchev | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Dean Rusk | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Adlai Stevenson | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
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Valerian Zorin | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Produced by
| Jody Gottlieb | ... | line producer |
| Isobel Hinshelwood | ... | associate producer |
| Jeremy Isaacs | ... | executive producer |
| Richard Melman | ... | producer |
| Pat Mitchell | ... | executive producer |
| Martin Smith | ... | series producer |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Ian Murray | ... | sparks rigger (as Ian Vincent Murray) |
Additional Crew
| Milica Budimir | ... | production coordinator |
| Svetlana Palmer | ... | researcher |
