Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
1963, English. Directed by Robert Drew & Richard Leacock & D. A. Pennebaker & Hope Ryden & James Lipscomb.
During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Kennedy, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, Alabama governor George Wallace, deputy attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach and the students Vivian Malone and James Hood. As Wallace has promised to personally block the two black students from enrolling in the university, the JFK administration discusses the best way to react to it, without rousing the crowd or making Wallace a martyr for the segregationist cause. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1999.
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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment is streaming on Criterion Channel and HBO Max in India.
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- 21 October 1963
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- United States of America
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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment runs 52 minutes (0h 52m).
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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment is streaming on Criterion Channel and HBO Max in India. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment?
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) was directed by Robert Drew and Richard Leacock and D. A. Pennebaker and Hope Ryden and James Lipscomb and stars James Lipscomb, John F. Kennedy, George Wallace.