Image of an assassination (The Zapruder Film) (1963)
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Added to the National Film Registry in 1994, this historical document remains a significant record of one of the nation's most devastating events and is still cited as a key piece of evidence in the debate over the truth of Kennedy's murder. This unprecedented release has been digitally mastered with the approval of the Zapruder family. An accompanying documentary, which explores the mastering process in detail, features a short portrait of Zapruder and a fascinating history of the film's official and unofficial showings up to the present. The tape also includes a frame-by-frame analysis of the film, a chronology of events, and additional historical video. This short film is still too gruesome and upsetting for many to watch, but Abraham Zapruder's famous home movie remains to this day one of the most controversial pieces of filmed history.

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1960s, USA, Texas

Collected reviews and ratings

9.0 Amazon user reviews

This is not a "who shot JFK?" documentary - there's no place for conspiracy theories or defenses of the Warren Commission conclusions to be found here. This is a new and much improved look at the single most important piece of evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy, complemented by a look at the process behind the digitalization of the film.
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9.0 allmovie | Mark Deming

Depending on your point of view, the film either confirms or contradicts the notion that JFK's assassination was part of a larger conspiracy. But the most basic fact of this film is simple and inarguable: a man is killed in the prime of his life, and it's impossible not to be moved by that shocking reality.
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7.5 digitallyobsessed.com | Dale Dobson

Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film is an interesting, in-depth look at Abraham Zapruder's 26 seconds of 8mm celluloid film that captured one of the most famous and tragic images in U.S. history.
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