When a federal court order mandated the integration of the all-white University of Alabama in 1963, Governor George Wallace vowed to personally prevent two black students from entering the university campus. President JFK and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy make it the administration’s mission to see that justice is done. Director Robert Drew and a four-person crew that included Richard Leacock as a cameraman captured the ensuing crisis in nuanced detail in this suspenseful hallmark of Direct Cinema.