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    Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

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  1. 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 ...

    • English
    • Robert Drew, Gregory Shuker
  2. Jul 31, 2014 · Crisis: Behind a Presidential CommitmentFirst aired on ABC television in 1963, Robert Drew's cinéma vérité documentary chronicles how President John F. Kenne...

    • Jul 31, 2014
    • 12.9K
    • US National Archives
  3. 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
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  5. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment 1963 Not Rated 52mGovernor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Oct 2, 2013 · Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) provided filmmaker Robert Drew, his crew and his audience the rare opportunity to watch a President of the United States deal with a national crisis. In this case, the crisis of the title was the attempted integration of the University of Alabama by African-American students by the Kennedy ...

  8. Nov 11, 2003 · Product Description. An incredible and candid look at JFK and RFK as they struggle with the integration crisis in 1963. With Governor George Wallace blocking the doors to the all-white University of Alabama, this documentary shows the Kennedy brothers embroiled in the decision making process, uncertain if an course of action is the right one. 2003/b&w/64 min/NR/fullscreen.

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