--- title: 'Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)' type: 'film' director: 'Robert Drew' released: '1963-01-01' runtime_minutes: 52 genres: - 'Documentary' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/crisis-behind-a-presidential-commitment-1963' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263238/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) 1963 · 52 min · Documentary · United States ## Synopsis 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Robert Drew](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-drew) - **Producer:** [Robert Drew](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-drew) - **Director of Photography:** [D. A. Pennebaker](https://cinepixo.com/people/d-a-pennebaker), [Richard Leacock](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-leacock), [Hope Ryden](https://cinepixo.com/people/hope-ryden), [James Lipscomb](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-lipscomb) ## Cast - [John F. Kennedy](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-f-kennedy) - [George D. Wallace](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-d-wallace) - [James Hood](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-hood) - [Nicholas Katzenbach](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicholas-katzenbach) - [Robert F. Kennedy](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-f-kennedy) - [Vivian Malone Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/vivian-malone-jones) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/crisis-behind-a-presidential-commitment-1963 Film facts: Wikidata (Q576581); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.