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VHS : Crisis - Behind a Presidential CommitmentIn association with Amazon.comstarring: John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy, Vivian Malone, James Hood directed by: Robert Drew  List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $23.70 You Save: $1.25 ( 5%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780767057530 Format: Black & White, NTSC ISBN: 0767057538 Label: New Video Group Manufacturer: New Video Group Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Video Group Release Date: November 11, 2003 Running Time: 52 minutes Studio: New Video Group Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 1963 Sales Rank: 62410 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: CRISIS: BEHIND A PRESIDENTIAL COMMITMENT is the first and only film ever shot candidly of a President making decisions during a crisis. It came about when President Kennedy screened Robert Drew's film Primary, (JFK vs. Hubert Humphrey in Wisconsin) and as Amazon.com: Having earned John F. Kennedy's trust with his 1960 campaign-trail film Primary, pioneering cinema verité documentarian Robert Drew expressed his desire to document a president in crisis. When African American college students Vivian Malone and James Hood prepared to enroll at the all-white University of Alabama in June 1963, governor George Wallace supplied the crisis, defying a federal court order and vowing to prevent the students' enrollment. Kennedy granted unprecedented access to Drew and his unobtrusive four-team crew, who used handheld cameras to cover both sides of the conflict: Wallace self-righteously clings to the futility of segregation (and more than a few racist Alabamans support him), while a flurry of phone calls between JFK, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenback reveal a tightly coordinated plan to dismiss Wallace (in RFK's words) as "a second-rate figure." The result is the most intimate study of JFK and RFK ever filmed, capturing the powerful brothers as they forge a great victory for civil rights and racial equality. In defeat, Wallace is left stinging and irrelevant, a Southern dinosaur whose arrogance was his own undoing. For these and many other reasons, Crisis remains one of the most riveting visual records of the Kennedy administration, and Drew's short film Faces of November (included as a bonus feature) provides a sobering reminder: Five months after Crisis was filmed, JFK was dead and a nation was mourning. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating: - unprecedented accessImagine George W. Bush allowing himself to be candidly filmed during a major crisis. Impossible you say. Yet less than fifty years ago, President Kennedy permitted just that as he dealt with the crisis of integrating the University of Alabama. Robert Drew's superb editing provides a remarkable glimpse into that time, and that crisis. An essential DVD for anyone wanting to understand the early 1960's and the innocence we lost over the next half-decade. Rating: - yet another Robert Drew classic on JFK (and Bobby, too)!!!!This is an outstanding, landmark film, way ahead of its time. I really like the intimate portrait of JFK and Bobby. Drew's cameras are the flies on the wall, so to speak. Get this!! Vince Palamara-JFK/ Secret Service expert (History Channel, author of two books, in over 30 other author's books, etc.) Pittsburgh, PA BEST JFK ASSASSINATION BOOK: ULTIMATE SACRIFICE BEST JFK SECRET SERVICE BOOK: SURVIVOR'S GUILT BY YOURS TRULY :) Rating:  - Crisis-Behind a Presidential CommittmentI first saw this outstanding cinema verite Civil Rights documentary by Drew Associates in 1988, of the political and Federal government strategy to integrate negroes into the American University system in 1963 in the deep South in Alabama. Should be standard viewing for anyone concerned about human rights and progress. The DVD version unfortunately has a copyright symbol DA (for Drew Associates) permanently on the image, so I cannot recommend this DVD, as the symbol ruins the programme. Rating: - "Crisis" + The Bonus Film "Faces Of November" = A Collectible DVD!Famed pioneering filmmaker Robert Drew produced and directed this film in June 1963, his second project working with John F. Kennedy, following his outstanding 1960 documentary, "Primary", which was a first-of-its-kind "Live" as-it's-happening type of film that followed two candidates for the U.S. Presidency (JFK and Hubert Humphrey) around the streets of Wisconsin during the 1960 Presidential Primary there. In this 53-minute documentary film, made three years after "Primary", Drew and ... Read More Rating: - Ideal for historians and Kennedy buffsThis is a great look at the tension surrounding the integration of the University of Alabama in 1963. Basically, JFK & RFK face off against George Corley Wallace, the "gubnuh" (as Lynyrd Skynyrd puts it) who tries to gain browine points from his followers for keeping it segregated. Interestingly, the film shows each protagnist behind the politics. Wallace is shown saying goodbye to his children AND his Black maid (one wonders what goes through her mind as Wallace makes his infamous stand) and the ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: 
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