In 1960, when the documentary Primary captured John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail in Wisconsin, it also represented a breakthrough in technology for hand-held camera crews, bringing cinéma vérité to non-fiction filmmaking. Three years later, Kennedy allowed the same team and cameras into the White House for the film Crisis, about the administration's civil-rights showdown with segregationist Gov. George Wallace. Now these films have been restored by Criterion as The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates.

 — Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen

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