Rent JFK: Like No Other (2013)
4.1 of 5 from 46 ratings
4h 0min
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- Synopsis:
In this probing biography, 'American Experience' presents a fresh look at an enigmatic man who remains one of the nations most beloved and mourned leaders, John F. Kennedy. Beginning with Kennedy's childhood years as the privileged but sickly son of one of the wealthiest men in America, the film explores his early political career as a lacklustre congressman, his successful run for the US Senate, and the game-changing presidential campaign that made him the youngest elected president in US history. With the benefit of recently opened archives, the film recounts his struggles with life-threatening illnesses, and his efforts to keep them hidden from the public. JFK offers a new perspective on his complicated private life, including his relationship with his wife, his close connection to his younger brother, Robert, and his complex bond with his powerful father. It also reevaluates Kennedy's strengths and weaknesses in the Oval Office as he navigated some of the most explosive events of the mid-twentieth century - the disastrous failure at the Bay of Pigs, the urgent demands of an increasingly impatient civil rights movement, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the escalating conflict in Southeast Asia. - Actors:
- John F. Kennedy, Evan Thomas, Robert Caro, Robert Dallek, Michael Dobbs, Thomas Hughes, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Caroline Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Tim Naftali, David Nasaw, Richard Reeves, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., John Seigenthaler, Frank Sinatra, Jean Kennedy Smith, Harris Wofford, Andrew Young
- Directors:
- Susan Bellows
- Producers:
- Susan Bellows, Molly Jacobs
- Voiced By:
- Charles Cabell, Oliver Platt
- Narrated By:
- Oliver Platt
- Writers:
- Mark Zwonitzer
- Aka:
- JFK: The Untold Story
- Studio:
- PBS
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Documentary, Special Interest
- Collections:
- JFK on Screen
