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 was released in 1963 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 6 reviews, giving Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) an average rating of 73%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 72%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 60%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment than critics were.
With a score of 73%, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1963, which stands at 61%.
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