"All The Way" Film: President Lyndon B. Johnson & Civil Rights, Actor Bryan Cranston As LBJ

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Trailer. HBO film 2016 based on the play. Starring actor Bryan Cranston whose performance as LBJ is outstanding. Johnson, the rough but brilliant and effective democratic US president who succeeded JFK in the turbulent 1960s was a former firebrand New Deal Senator from Texas. Cranston, one of the most versatile American actors around today just recently survived Covid. *Check out this exceptional and powerful film about a monumental era in US history.
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~ All the Way is a 2016 American biographical TV drama film based on events during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Directed by Jay Roach & adapted by Robert Schenkkan from his play with the same title, the film stars Bryan Cranston, who reprises his role as Johnson from the play's 2014 Broadway production, with Melissa Leo as First Lady Lady Bird Johnson; Anthony Mackie as Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.; and Frank Langella as US Sen. Richard Russell Jr. of Georgia. The film was well received by critics, with Cranston's portrayal of Johnson garnering praise; it received many award nominations.

Johnson becomes President of the U.S. after the John F. Kennedy assassination in Nov. 1963, assisted and advised by his wife Lady Bird. LBJ enters the White House but soon must work on the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Martin Luther King Jr. pressures Johnson to pass the bill without amendments that would defang it; Southern Democrats such as Richard Russell Jr. of Georgia oppose the bill so much that they may abandon the Democratic Party if the bill passes, and Republicans and Democrats on the fence offer amendments opposed by the liberals and the Civil Rights activists.

At the same time, Johnson wants to declare a War on Poverty. The Gulf of Tonkin incident causes Johnson to ask Congress for a resolution endorsing a reprisal against North Vietnam, wary of being outflanked on the issue by the Republicans. After successful passage of the Civil Rights Act over a filibuster, Johnson contends for election against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election. This is complicated by the Freedom Summer movement and pulls between the northern liberal wing and Southern Dixiecrat wing of the Democratic Party. Johnson assigns J. Edgar Hoover to investigate the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Way_(film)

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1. President Johnson Addresses Joint Session of Congress After JFK Assassination. Nov. 27, 1963.

- President Lyndon Baines Johnson's Address Before Joint Session of Congress, November 27, 1963. President Johnson speaks to Congress following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. America needed to hear these words from the new president and LBJ gave the speech of his life. ~ Read Robert Caro's outstanding works on President Johnson. https://www.robertcaro.com/the-books/

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2. Saw the play a couple of years ago.

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3. Lucky you, I heard it was excellent. Also they might be

working on another one about The Great Society which would be terrific. That's been a while and I haven't heard anything else on it.