Snubbed by the Academy Awards, Thirteen Days is one of the best films of 2000. Valuable for its historical accuracy alone, Thirteen Days chronicles the pivotal moments of the Cuban Missile crisis in October of 1962. Unlike countless films before it, Thirteen Days creates a true edge-of-your-seat atmosphere even through scenes with little or no physical action (i.e., common dialogue and men gathered around tables), and the film manages to maintain a certain level of suspense even though the audience knows the final outcome