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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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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
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The president was facing great tension in American politics and society. In spite of a federal ruling, Governor George Wallace was threatening to deny two black students access to the "white" University of Alabama. Attorney General Robert Kennedy had to move mountains to overcome the crisis.
CRISIS: BEHIND A PRESIDENTIAL COMMITMENT (TV) Summary. This documentary -- the first and only documenary to show a U.S. President in the oval office making decisions in the midst of a crisis -- offers a look inside the White House during a thirty-hour period starting June 10, 1963, as President John F. Kennedy and his brother, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, are seen handling a crisis ...
