A collection of Robert Drew docs on the Kennedys. Criterion Collection Year 2016 Video Release 2016 04 26 Studio Criterion Collection Genre Documentary MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 170 Animated Live Action Full Synopsis Seeking to invigorate the American documentary format, which he felt was rote and uninspired, Robert Drew brought the style and vibrancy he had fostered as a Life magazine correspondent to filmmaking in the late fifties. He did this by assembling an amazing team including such eventual nonfiction luminaries as Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, and Albert Maysles that would transform documentary cinema. In 1960, the group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind closed doors intimacy Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles, early exemplars of the movement known as Direct Cinema and featuring the greatest close up footage we have of this American icon. Director Robert Drew Cast Robert Drew