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Crisis
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science.
- Social sciences.
- History, Modern.
- Americans.
- Foreign study.
- Documentary films.
- Current affairs.
- History.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politicians.
- United States--History.
- Nineteen sixties.
- Genre:
- Documentary films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1963
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2025
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- A landmark film of Direct Cinema, this documentary 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 Administration and the machinations of then Governor George Wallace to stop them
- Participant:
- John F. Kennedy
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1963
- Publisher Number:
- 16726783 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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