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Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and played a central role in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Acheson's most famous decision was convincing President Truman to intervene in the Korean War in June 1950. He also persuaded Truman to dispatch aid and advisors to French forces in Indochina, though in 1968 he finally counseled President Lyndon B. Johnson to negotiate for peace with North Vietnam. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy called upon Acheson for advice, bringing him into the executive committee (ExComm), a strategic advisory group.
In the late 1940s Acheson came under heavy attack over Truman's policy toward China, and for Acheson's defense of State Department employees (such as Alger Hiss) accused during the anti-Communist Red Scare investigations of Senator Joseph McCarthy and others.
Actors: Robert F. Kennedy (actor), Joseph P. Kennedy (actor), Lyndon Johnson (actor), Bruce Campbell (actor), John F. Kennedy (actor), Michael Fairman (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Winston Churchill (actor), Kevin Conway (actor), Kevin Costner (actor), Len Cariou (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), Fidel Castro (actor), Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor), Nikita Khrushchev (actor),
Plot: This is a documentary about the historical context of the Cuban Missile Crisis, that is available on the DVD for the film, _Thirteen Days (2000)_ (qv). Using archival footage and new interviews with a wide range of experts, Director/Producer, 'Alita Holly' (qv) explores the events that lead up to the crisis, as well as the people involved.
Keywords: american-history, american-politics, cold-war, crisis, cuban-history, cuban-missile-crisis, danger, military, nervousness, nuclearActors: Allan Graf (actor), Craig Hosking (actor), Walter Cronkite (actor), Michael Fairman (actor), Phil Hawn (actor), Bruce Greenwood (actor), Cliff Fleming (actor), Len Cariou (actor), Elya Baskin (actor), Tom Everett (actor), Kevin Conway (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), Kevin Costner (actor), James Karen (actor), Rick Kain (actor),
Plot: In October, 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. These weapons have the capability of wiping out most of the Eastern and Southern United States in minutes if they become operational. President John F. Kennedy and his advisors must come up with a plan of action against the Soviets. Kennedy is determined to show that he is strong enough to stand up to the threat, and the Pentagon advises U.S. military strikes against Cuba--which could lead the way to another U.S. invasion of the island. However, Kennedy is reluctant to follow through, because a U.S. invasion could cause the Soviets to retaliate in Europe. A nuclear showdown appears to be almost inevitable. Can it be prevented?
Keywords: 1960s, a-shot-across-the-bow, air-force-jet, airforce-one, aviation, based-on-book, blockade, box-office-flop, cold-war, cubaActors: Richard Nixon (actor), Holmes Osborne (actor), Zeljko Ivanek (actor), Michael Murphy (actor), Colm Feore (actor), James Gammon (actor), Pat Hingle (actor), Tony Goldwyn (actor), Leo Burmester (actor), Douglas MacArthur (actor), Richard Dysart (actor), Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor), Winston Churchill (actor), Gary Sinise (actor), Franklin D. Roosevelt (actor),
Plot: Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decission to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.
Keywords: 1950s, american-president, archive-footage, armed-forces, army-general, atomic-weapons, based-on-book, character-name-in-title, cold-war, cold-war-eraActors: Richard Hartley (composer), John Glover (actor), Frances Conroy (actress), Alan Landsburg (producer), Geraldine Fitzgerald (actress), Tim Monich (miscellaneous crew), Barton Heyman (actor), E.G. Marshall (actor), Rick Warner (actor), Tom Wright (actor), Kelsey Grammer (actor), John Shea (actor), Margaret Matheson (producer), Ralph Sheldon (editor), Kevin Conroy (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,Actors: John Randolph (actor), John Carradine (actor), Bill Quinn (actor), Andrew Prine (actor), John Anderson (actor), Peter Boyle (actor), Alan Oppenheimer (actor), Edward Anhalt (actor), Burgess Meredith (actor), Henry Jones (actor), Ned Beatty (actor), Andrew Duggan (actor), John Forsythe (actor), Allan Rich (actor), Howard Hesseman (actor),
Plot: A dramatization of the life of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
Keywords: 1950s, blacklisting, cold-war, communism, communist-infiltrator, historical-event, mccarthyism, persecution, politics, senatorActors: Hans Paetsch (actor), Dirk Dautzenberg (actor), Herbert Tiede (actor), Helmut Förnbacher (actor), Ernst Fritz Fürbringer (actor), Konrad Georg (actor), Erik Schumann (actor), Werner Kreindl (actor), Hellmut Lange (actor), Robert Meyn (actor), Günther Neutze (actor), Hans Schellbach (actor), Hanns Ernst Jäger (actor), Hans Daniel (actor), Rudolf Nussgruber (director),
Genres: Drama,