Robert Kennedy Remembered

6.8
196830m

This moving film tribute to a man who had hoped to win the presidency created a historic moment when it brought the Chicago Democratic National Convention to a standstill and the crowd, in tears, to its feet. Commissioned by the Kennedy family, the film begins with the funeral train to Washington, D.C. and follows the triumphs and tragedies in the late Senator's life with extraordinary newsreel footage, archival stills, and home movies. The film was produced in only four weeks, two months after the Senator's assassination, in order to meet the Convention deadline. Guggenheim Productions, with the country's resources at its fingertips, worked around the clock to complete this film honoring RFK's life and the Democratic Party. "Robert Kennedy Remembered" is a poignant film biography that evokes the spirit, quality and commitment Robert Kennedy brought to his life and work. This film went on to win Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short in 1968.

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6/10

This is a fairly straightforward archive driven feature depicting the career of Robert Kennedy from charismatic supporter of his brother John through the turbulent period of American history that ultimately saw both the President and Dr. Martin Luther King assassinated before his own untimely killing. It touches on his roles as Attorney General and in the US Senate as he strove to improve the lot of the impoverished and repressed citizenry of a country where wealth was by no means common and where racism was rampant, especially in the South. He loved a quote. Shakespeare, Caesar and Greek philosophers all helped to populate his speeches as he tried to inspire the people to a better way of life, to more inclusive attitudes and he even spoke out against the Vietnam War - and those characteristics are reflected by news footage or by a narration that does what it needs to, but I felt was maybe a little too adulatory and in no way remotely critical of any aspects of his policies. In many ways this is just an obituary set to moving pictures.

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