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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment 1963 Not Rated 52mGovernor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wis...
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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Robert Drew's fascinating documentary takes a look at the battle between President Kennedy and Alabama Governor George Wallace. Kennedy and his brother Robert are seen trying to get Wallace to step down and allow two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama but the governor stands to his ground.
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment is a 1963 documentary film by Robert Drew.. It is a record of the June 1963 "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", regarding the judicially-mandated racial integration of the University of Alabama, the opposition to the same from Governor George Wallace, and the subsequent intervention by President John F. Kennedy.
Thanks to portable cameras and lightweight sound equipment, filmmaker Robert Drew and his team were able to follow presidential candidate John F. Kennedy from very close up during the Democratic primary in 1960. The result was his groundbreaking film Primary. In June 1963, he once again trained Drew Associates' cameras on Kennedy and his staff. The president was facing great tension in ...
A landmark in American documentary films, Robert Drew’s cinéma vérité work Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963; 52 minutes) chronicles how President John F. Kennedy, along with his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, clashed with Alabama Governor George Wallace over racial integration at the University of Alabama in 1963.
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment is een Amerikaanse documentaire uit 1963 geregisseerd door Robert Drew.. De film volgt een conflict tussen president John F. Kennedy en gouverneur George Wallace van de staat Alabama, die weigerde om Afro-Amerikaanse studenten toe te laten in een universiteit waarbij Wallace overging tot de actie Stand in the Schoolhouse Door.
