Continuity: There were several flash frames in the film - the most obvious was when an eight appeared in an atomic bomb shot. The eight was from film leader and the result of a bad edit.

Factual error: Briefly, we see an Air Force ground crew loading weapons onto a fighter (the shot is approximately a second long). The fighter is a Northrop F-5, which 1) was never flown by the Air Force as a combat plane, and 2) had yet to fly for the first time in October 1962!

Factual error: During the film, actual news footage of the Soviet merchant ships carrying missiles to Cuba are added to new scenes of alleged "Soviet" merchant ships. Whenever one of these new ships appears, it is clear that it is empty. The ships are riding so high in the water that the red paint on their hulls (normally under the waterline when the ship is fully loaded)is visible. This indicates that these ships are not carrying anything, rather than the film's implication that they are loaded with missiles for Cuba.

Continuity: In the scene where the US warship fires its guns at the freighter, you can see how the crew loads the guns. They load up blue grenades with white letters - blue rounds are training rounds.

Continuity: In one scene, JFK (Bruce Greenwood) is shown signing a document with his right hand and his watch is on his right wrist (which is unusual).  In the other scenes, JFK's watch is on his left wrist.