Robert F. Kennedy Movies

In 1960, filmmaker Robert Drew began work on a documentary called Primary which concerned that year's presidential campaign; one of the candidates, John F. Kennedy, gave Drew and his crew free access to film both their public campaign events and their private strategy sessions, and it was the beginning of a close working relationship between Drew and Kennedy. Drew would go on to make three more films about Kennedy after he was elected president -- Adventures on the New Frontier, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment and Faces of November -- with the cooperation of Kennedy and his staff, and in 2008 Drew revisited his footage of the late president to create a cinematic portrait of one of the most iconic figures in American politics. Narrated by Alec Baldwin, A President To Remember: In The Company Of John F. Kennedy was edited from Drew's archival footage of Kennedy, and captures the president both at work and with his family, offering an insight into both the leader and the man. A President To Remember: In The Company Of John F. Kennedy was an official selection at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Robert F. Kennedy was a forceful speaker who convinced many listeners who heard him address civil rights and poverty issues that he truly cared about helping Americans in crisis. Prior to his assassination in 1968, he delivered a number of impressive speeches that are featured in whole or in part during this program. There are clips from campaign speeches he made while running for Senator, his comments on the death of Martin Luther King, and a speech he made to the Democratic convention in which he eulogized his slain brother, President John F. Kennedy. Most of the clips are long enough to give listeners a true sense of this man's scripted and spontaneous speaking talents. Footage from various 1960s events is shown during several of the speech segments. ~ Elizabeth Smith, All Movie Guide