PBS Specials

Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War (2012x23)

Air date: Oct 23, 2012

Explore the inside story of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis — the world on the brink of nuclear holocaust. Two years in the making, "Cuban Missile Crisis - Three Men Go To War" reveals how three human beings grappled with the most dangerous two weeks in human history, when countless events outside their control threatened to ignite a nuclear holocaust that could have ended human civilization.