• Directed by Roger Donaldson
• Written by David Self, based on the book The Kennedy Tapes - Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow
• Produced by Peter O. Almond, Armyan Bernstein, Kevin Costner, and investor Kevin O'Donnell (son of Kenny O'Donnell)
• Cinematography by Andrzej Bartkowiak
• Sound editing by Steven D. Williams
• Special Effects by Cinesite Hollywood, VCE

• Kevin Costner as Kenny O'Donnell
• Bruce Greenwood as John F. Kennedy
• Steven Culp as Robert F. Kennedy
• Dylan Baker as Robert McNamara
• Michael Fairman as Adlai Stevenson
• Henry Strozier as Dean Rusk
• Frank Wood as McGeorge Bundy
• Len Cariou as Dean Acheson
• Janet Coleman as Evelyn Lincoln
• Stephanie Romanov as Jacqueline Kennedy
• Bill Smitrovich as General Maxwell Taylor
• Ed Lauter as General Marshall Carter
• Dakin Matthews as Arthur Lundhal
• Walter Adrian as Lyndon Johnson
• Peter White as John McCone
• Tim Kelleher as Ted Sorensen
• James Karen as George Ball
• Dan Ziskie as General Walter "Cam" Sweeney
• Kevin Conway as General Curtis LeMay
• Kelly Connell as Pierre Salinger
• Olek Krupa as Andrei Gromyko
• Elya Baskin as Anatoly Dobrynin

Links:

• Credits from the IMDB for the title Thirteen Days
• Official site from New Line Cinema
• The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis from NSA has a chronology of events, a "Learn the Lessons" section with 3 essays by historians, full text of declassified documents, U-2 photos, recordings White House security briefings
• John F. Kennedy Library
• Foreign Relations of the United States online volumes includes vol XI Cuban Missile Crisis
• Sixties links
• Yahoo index for Cuban Missile Crisis and President John F. Kennedy