Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968)

This is a fairly straightforward archive driven feature depicting the career of Robert Kennedy from charismatic supporter of his brother John through the turbulent period of American history that ultimately saw both the President and Dr. Martin Luther King assassinated before his own untimely killing. It touches on his roles as Attorney General and in the US Senate as he strove to improve the lot of the impoverished and repressed citizenry of a country where wealth was by no means common and where racism was rampant, especially in the South. He loved a quote. Shakespeare, Caesar and Greek philosophers all helped to populate his speeches as he tried to inspire the people to a better way of life, to more inclusive attitudes and he even spoke out against the Vietnam War - and those characteristics are reflected by news footage or by a narration that does what it needs to, but I felt was maybe a little too adulatory and in no way remotely critical of any aspects of his policies. In many ways this is just an obituary set to moving pictures.