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It's a fly-on-the-wall documentary cinema verite as three powerful men are coming to an epic battle. President John F. Kennedy wants to enforce the integration of the University of Alabama. His younger brother Robert F. Kennedy is the Attorney General of the United States. George Wallace is the Governor of Alabama and insists on fighting the federal government.

This serves as a piece of historical document. It's not pushing the agenda one way or another. It is simply showing the situation as it existed. There is surprising tension despite the known history. I can't wait for the movie.

President John F. Kennedy and his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy face down Governor George Wallace of Alabama who has sworn to personally block the entrance of two black students (Vivian Malone and James Hood) into the campus of The University of Alabama. The intimacy of the documentarian's camera with the principal characters is stunning (such openness in a politician seems unthinkable now) and the discussions about how to diffuse an ostensibly simple but in fact incredibly complicated problem are fascinating (as are the futures of all involved).