Jacqueline Kennedy

The Wisconsin Primary of 1960 sets John Kennedy on the road to the White House.

This short, stark film has no dialogue and no narration. Mourners struggle with personal feelings that are revealed painfully in their faces. Originally commissioned by ABC News to document the funeral of the assassinated President John F. Kennedy, the film came in at a length that the network found awkward and was never aired. Nevertheless, Faces of November won two prizes at the Venice Film Festival.

After John F. Kennedy’s election and before his inauguration, filmmaker Robert Drew screened the breakthrough Drew Associates film Primary for the president-elect and his wife in West Palm Beach. Kennedy appreciated the film, so Drew proposed another, this one to document a president dealing with a crisis. Kennedy told Drew to do some test shooting to see if he could forget the camera as he had when he campaigned in Wisconsin. Drew and D. A. Pennebaker went to the White House for a two-day test shoot, during which they were given free rein to film everything that happened. During a meeting with the joint chiefs of staff, when the subject of Cuba arose, an admiral had to remind the president that the camera was there. This footage was broadcast as Adventures on the New Frontier.

The release of thousands of classified documents along with expert insights and theories question the truth behind a day that forever changed history.

A presentation of official government documents that allegedly connect the death of John Kennedy Jr. in a July 1999 plane crash to George W. Bush.