Direction: Robert Drew

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Robert Drew. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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1960 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert Drew

Cast Robert Drew · Hubert H. Humphrey · John F. Kennedy · Jacqueline Kennedy

Plot Cinema verite feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary.

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64 votes

6.9

64 votes

Yanki, No! (TV)

1960 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert Drew

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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

1963 · Documentary · 52 min. · United States

Direction Robert Drew

Cast John F. Kennedy · George Wallace · Robert F. Kennedy · Vivian Malone

Plot During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Kennedy, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy,...

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The Sun Ship Game

1971 · Documentary · 83 min. · United States

Direction Robert Drew

Plot Flying hundreds of miles a day through wild weather with no engine requires feats of airmanship unprecedented in human history and known before only to the birds. George Moffat and...

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The Chair

1963 · Documentary · 59 min. · United States

Direction Robert Drew

Plot Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, from the electric chair. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with...

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Faces of November (S)

1964 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States

Direction Robert Drew

Cast Lyndon Johnson · John Kennedy Jr. · Caroline Kennedy · Jacqueline Kennedy

Plot An elegy for President Kennedy, as told by the grief-stricken faces of mourners filing by his coffin in the Capitol Rotunda and at his burial at Arlington National Cemetery.

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A President to Remember (TV)

2011 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Robert Drew

Cast John F. Kennedy · Jacqueline Kennedy

Plot A documentary combining rare personal footage and well-known archive footage of President John F. Kennedy.

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On the Road with Duke Ellington

1974 · Documentary · 57 min. · United States

Direction Robert Drew

Cast Duke Ellington · Louis Armstrong · Mercer Ellington · Don Morrow

Plot A film shot in 1967, when Duke Ellington was 68 that takes us through the jazzman’s daily existence.

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Storm Signal

1966 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert Drew · James Lipscomb

Cast James Lipscomb

Plot Drew Associates entered the life of a young married couple, both drug addicts, and recorded their day-to-day existence.on film

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