Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
October 21, 1963Release Date
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
October 21, 1963Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
James Lipscomb
Narrator
John F. Kennedy
Self - President of the United States
George Wallace
Self - Governor of Alabama
Robert F. Kennedy
Self - Attorney General of the United States
Vivian Malone
Self - a Negro Student
Robert Drew
Director / Executive Producer
James Hood
Self - a Negro Student
Nicholas T. Proferes
Assistant Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 21, 1963
StatusReleased
Running Time52m
Filming LocationsAlabama, United States
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
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 given expanded access to key areas, including United States President John F. Kennedy's Oval Office and the homes of United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Governor George Wallace of Alabama. The film first aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) as an installment of Close-Up! four months after the incident, on October 28, 1963. It was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress on December 28, 2011.