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  2. www.youtube.com › watchCrisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment - YouTube

    Crisis: Behind a Presidential CommitmentFirst aired on ABC television in 1963, Robert Drew's cinéma vérité documentary chronicles how President John F. Kenne...

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    • US National Archives

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Crisis:_Behind_aCrisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment - Wikipedia

    Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment is a 1963 direct cinema documentary film directed by Robert Drew. The film centers on the University of Alabama 's "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" integration crisis of June 1963. Drew and the other filmmakers, including D. A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock, were ...

  4. www.nytimes.com › 2009/01/18 › moviesThe New Relevance of ‘Crisis: Behind a Presidential ...

    Jan 16, 2009 · THE first movie that Barack Obama should watch in the White House screening room is a 45-year-old television documentary about John F. Kennedy’s showdown with Gov. George C. Wallace over the ...

  5. www.imdb.com › title › tt0263238Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) - IMDb

    Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment: Directed by Robert Drew. With James Lipscomb, John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy. Governor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wishes of President Kennedy.

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    • Documentary, History, News
    • Robert Drew
    • 1963-10-21

  6. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › crisis_behind_aCrisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment | Rotten Tomatoes

    Movie Info. Synopsis President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, work to get two black students enrolled at the University of Alabama despite Gov. George Wallace's ...

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    • Robert Drew
    • Documentary
    • ABC News

  7. drewassociates.com › films › crisis-behind-aCrisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment | Films | Drew ...

    The cameras follow the President, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Wallace, and the two students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, as the crisis unfolds and up through its dramatic climax, including rare scenes of decision-making inside the Oval Office. The film delivers on its promise to show history in the making, and not just in the grand ...

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  9. www.themoviedb.org › movie › 162494-crisis-behind-aCrisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) — The Movie ...

    During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Kennedy, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, Alabama governor George Wallace, deputy attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach and the students Vivian Malone and James Hood. As Wallace has promised to personally block the two black students from ...

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