Overview - The Five Cities of June

Date of release

Genres

  • Documentary

Runtime: 26 minutes

Homepage: The Five Cities of June

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

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Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: U.S. Information Agency

    Production country

Overview

The Five Cities of June is a 1963 American short documentary film directed by Bruce Herschensohn. This United States Information Agency-sponsored film details the events of June 1963 in five different cities. In the Vatican, the election and coronation of Pope Paul VI; in the Soviet Union, the launch of a Soviet rocket as part of the Space Race with the United States; in South Vietnam, fighting between Communists and South Vietnamese soldiers; in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, the racial integration of the University of Alabama opposed by Governor George Wallace; and in Berlin, President John F. Kennedy's visit to Germany and Rudolph Wilde Platz. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Cast

  • Name: Charlton Heston

    Character: Narrator

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