JFK - A Presidency Revealed (History Channel)
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Actor: JFK, John F. KennedyBrand: A&E
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 300 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
Movie Reviews of JFK - A Presidency Revealed (History Channel)
Movie Review: Outstanding Content
Summary: 5 Stars
You get a lot for your money here: "insider" footage showing the Kennedy family at home, coupled with very insightful, and even sometimes unsparing, comments about the 1000 days from people who saw it happen.
I enjoyed the "extra" documentary about his father, too. Understanding Joseph Kennedy helps explain what drove JFK to the places he attained in our history. His impatience and sanguinity about human nature, coupled with a nagging sense of "realpolitik" etched his reputation.
This is really riveting television, let alone history or documentary. If it leaves you wanting more, you have to ask whether you want more program or more JFK...
Summary of JFK - A Presidency Revealed (History Channel)
Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 11/25/2003 Run time: 300 minutesJFK: A Presidency Revealed delves unflinchingly into the presidency of John F. Kennedy, examining the political crises, social unrest, and personal intricacies that marked his administration. What makes this three-part series stand out is its willingness to admit Kennedy's faults--in particular his troubled marriage, his infidelities, his illnesses, and his sometimes-excessive use of painkillers to cope with the pain of his bad back--as well as the missteps of his presidency, providing a strikingly balanced and human portrait of this all-too-often-mythologized president. Particularly revelatory is how the inexperience that resulted in the bungled Bay of Pigs operation led, in turn, to a far more skilled and careful handing of the Cuban missile crisis, in which the world came closer to nuclear war than ever before and perhaps ever since. A wealth of film, video, photographs, and previously unreleased secret recordings provide new insights into Kennedy's political and personal life (Kennedy was, as this documentary makes clear, the first president to really use the media to achieve his goals, launching an entirely new political forum).
Accompanying JFK: A Presidency Revealed are two episodes of A&E's Biography series--one a considerably more hero-worshipping profile of Kennedy that nonetheless provides worthwhile background information about his childhood and early career; the other a profile of JFK's father Joe P. Kennedy that explores the drive and ambition that set the entire Kennedy family on its political path. All in all, a valuable and informative document. --Bret Fetzer
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